Revolutions from Grub Street: A History of Magazine Publishing in Britain

by Howard Cox and Simon Mowatt

Revolutions from Grub Street charts the evolution of Britain's popular magazine industry from its seventeenth century origins through to the modern digital age. Following the reforms engendered by the Glorious Revolution of 1688 the Grub Street area of London, which later transmuted into the cluster of venerable publishing houses centred on Fleet Street, spawned a vibrant culture of commercial writers and small-scale printing houses. Exploiting the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601631
• ISBN13: 9780199601639
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"