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Klappentext The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling. Zusammenfassung The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing! publishing and bookselling! this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction David McKitterick; 1. Changes in the look of the book David McKitterick; 2. The illustration revolution Michael Twyman; 3. The serial revolution Graham Law and Robert L. Patten; 4. Authorship Patrick Leary and Andrew Nash; 5. Copyright Catherine Seville; 6. Distribution Stephen Colclough; 7. Reading Stephen Colclough and David Vincent; 8. Mass markets: religion Michael Ledger-Lomas; 9. Mass markets: education Christopher Stray and Gillian Sutherland; 10. Mass markets: children's books Brian Alderson and Andrea Immel; 11. Mass markets: literature Simon Eliot and Andrew Nash; 12. Publishing science, technology and mathematics James A. Secord; 13. Publishing for leisure Victoria Cooper and Dave Russell; 14. Publishing for the professions David McKitterick; 15. Organised knowledge David McKitterick; 16. The information revolution Aileen Fyfe; 17. A place in the world John Barnes, Bill Bell, Rimi Chatterjee, Wallace Kirsop and Michael Winship; 18. A place in time David McKitterick; 19. A publishing year - 1891 Simon Eliot and Richard Freebury; 20. Where do we go from here? William St Clair; Bibliography; Index.
