Light on the Book Trade: Essays Presented at the Nineteenth Seminar on the British Book Trade in Honour of Peter Isaac

by McKay, Barry; Isaac, Peter C. G.; McKay, Barry; Hinks, John; Bell, Maureen; CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH

• ISBN13: 9781584560852
• ISBN10: 1584560851
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Summary

A festschrift in honor of the late Peter Isaac. This unique work contains eighteen essays that were presented to the 19th Seminar on the British Book Trade by leading scholars of printing history. A remarkable collection of well-researched works that no enthusiast of publishing history should be without.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. vii
Peter Isaac: a Landmark Removed	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The History of the English Provincial Book Trade: a research agenda	p. 1
'For no text is an island, divided from the main' Incunable Sammelbande	p. 13
Freeman and Susannah Collins and the Spread of English Provincial Printing	p. 27
Taking Stock: The Diary of Edmund Harrold of Manchester	p. 37
Books in Eighteenth-Century Whitehaven	p. 51
From George III to Queen Victoria: a provincial family and their books	p. 61
Print, Privilege and Piracy in the Book of Common Prayer	p. 73
John Gregory and the 'Leicester Journal'	p. 85
Literary Institutions in the Lake Counties Part IV: Catalogues	p. 95
Influential and Mysterious: The Career of Septimus Prowett: Bookseller, Publisher and Picture Dealer	p. 107
Typography in Nineteenth-Century Children's Readers: the Otley Connection	p. 119
Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library in Sydney in the 1840s	p. 131
Staying the Course: the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, 1830-1844	p. 141
Paths Through the Wilderness: Recording the History of Provincial Newspapers in England	p. 153
James Everett and the Sale of Adam Clarke's Library, 1833: a newly discovered manuscript	p. 165
Thomas Gee Senior	p. 175
False Imprints and the Bridger Specimen Books	p. 189
Charles Elliot's Book Adventure in Philadelphia, and the Trouble with Thomas Dobson	p. 197
Bibliography of Writings	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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