Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England

by James Raven and James Raven

Book Overview

Publishing Business assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England in the long eighteenth century. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house. This book examines the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843839105
• ISBN13: 9781843839101
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"