The Human Face of the Book Trade: Print Culture and Its Creators

by Isaac, Peter C. G.; McKay, Barry

• ISBN13: 9781873040546
• ISBN10: 1873040547
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Summary

As Professor Sher writes in this third volume in the series Print Networks, 'stories about books are also stories about authors, readers, and members of the book trade, seen as flesh-and-blood individuals with their own interests, aspirations, motives, strengths, and weaknesses'. The Human Face of the Book Trade explores this topic, showing how human idiosyncrasies intervene at every stage of the intellectual journey from author to reader, and how the strengths and frailties of the creators of print culture may produce smaller or larger changes of direction.

Author Biography

Iain Beavan, Senior Curator in the Heritage Division, Aberdeen University, is a member of the University's Cultural History Group Stephen Brown, Master of Champlain College, Trent University Graeme Forbes is currently a sub-librarian at Napier University, where he has worked since 1986. He is Head of the University Library's Acquisitions, Record Management and Supply Division, including the responsibility for the Edward Clark Collection. He also teaches librarianship in the University's Department of Print Media, Publishing and Communication. Peter Isaac, Emeritus Professor of Civil and Public Health Engineering of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Philip Henry Jones has, since 1970, been a member of the lecturing staff of the College of Librarianship Wales (now part of the University of Wales Aberystwyth Warren McDougall, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Edinburgh Barry McKay, an antiquarian bookseller who specializes in bibliography and the art and history of the book, has been, for several years, engaged in research on the book trade in Cumbria Paul Morgan has worked with antiquarian and early printed books first in the Library of the University of Birmingham and then in the Bodleian Library, Oxford Michael Powell, Librarian of Chetham's Library Jonathan Sanderson is currently completing his PhD in the School of English at the University of Leeds Brenda Scragg, of the John Rylands Library, has published several catalogues of exhibitions of that Library on the theme of nineteenth-century book arts and historical children's literature Richard Sher is Professor of History at New Jersey Institute of Technology and Aassociate Chairman of the Federated History Department at NJIT and Rutgers University, Newark David Stoker is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Information and Library Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth Terry Wyke teaches social and economic history at Manchester Metropolitan University

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Editorial	p. ix
Henry Cotton and W H Allnutt: two Pioneer Book-Trade Historians	p. 1
The Country Book Trades 1784-85	p. 13
William Smellie and the Printer's Role in the Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Book Trade	p. 29
William Buchan's Domestic Medicine: Laying Book History Open	p. 45
Medical Secrets and the Book Trade: Ownership of the Copy to the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia (1618-50)	p. 65
Charles Elliot and the London Booksellers in the Early Years	p. 81
Charles Elliot and the English Provincial Book Trade	p. 97
Scotland and the Welsh-Language Book Trade during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century	p. 117
'Spreading the Hell-hounds of Jealousy and Discord': the Aberdeen Shaver and its Times	p. 137
William Ford, Manchester Bookseller	p. 155
At the Fall of the Hammer: Auctioning Books in Manchester 1700-1850	p. 171
Niche Marketing in the Nineteenth Century: The Shepherds' Guides of the Northern Counties	p. 191
The Edward Clark Collection at Napier University Library, Edinburgh	p. 207
Index	p. 219
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