The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and Its Impact

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

• ISBN13: 9781584560241
• ISBN10: 158456024X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Oak Knoll Pr

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Editorial	ix
`Worthy of the poets and worthy of a gentleman': Publishing Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru (1773)	1	(12)
Rheinallt Llwyd
The Potter Family of Haverfordwest, 1780-1875	13	(10)
Chris Baggs
Pedlars & Mercers as Distributors of Print in Early-Modern Wales	23	(10)
Richard Suggett
`Business is Awful Bad in these Parts': New Evidence for the Pre-1914 Decline of the Welsh-Language Book Trade	33	(10)
Philip Henry Jones
George Nicholson and His Cambrian Traveller's Guide	43	(14)
Audrey Cooper
William Ford and Edinburgh Cultural Society at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century	57	(12)
Brenda Scragg
Advertising Judiciously: Scottish Nineteenth-Century Publishers and the British Market	69	(10)
Iain Beavan
The Coming of Print to York, c1490-1550	79	(10)
Stacey Gee
Sturdy Rogues and Vagabonds: Restoration Control of Pedlars and Hawkers	89	(8)
Maureen Bell
Printing at the Red-Well: an early Norwich Press through the Eyes of Contemporaries	97	(10)
David Stoker
Canterbury's External Links: Book-Trade Relations at the Regional and National Level in the Eighteenth Century	107	(14)
David J Shaw
William Flackton, 1709-1798, Canterbury Bookseller and Musician	121	(10)
Sarah Gray
Books Returned, Accounts Unsettled and Gifts of Country Food: Customer Expectations around 1700	131	(12)
Margaret Cooper
Newspapers in Huntingdonshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries	143	(10)
Diana Dixon
Chapbooks & Primers, Piety, Poetry & Classics: the Mozleys of Gainsborough	153	(10)
Jim English
John Ware, Printer and Bookseller of Whitehaven: a Year from his Day-books	163	(12)
Barry McKay
Some Radical Printers and Booksellers of Leicester c1790-1850	175	(10)
John Hinks
Book Publishing from the English Provinces in the late Nineteenth Century: Report on Work in Progress	185	(12)
John R Turner
Index	197