...P.F. Kornicki © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 --> China History of publishing Book trade Cynthia J.   Brokaw . Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods . Cambridge, MA : Harvard East Asian Monographs 280, Harvard...

...Murray Simpson Barry   McKay , John   Hinks and Maureen   Bell . Light on the Book Trade: Essays in Honour of Peter Isaac . Oak Knoll Press and British Library , 2004 . , ISBN: 1‐58456‐085‐1; ISBN 0‐7123‐4797‐6   £25 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006...

...Jonathan Bengtson John   Barnard and D.F.   McKenzieeds . The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. 1557‐1695 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press   2002 . £95 Vol. 4 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 --> Publishing Book trade Printing...

...Robin Myers; Michael Harris; Giles Mandelbrote Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century . Oak Knoll Press and the British Library , 2002 . xiv+208 pp.   £24.96 Oak Knoll: 1‐58456‐094‐0 British Library: 0‐7123‐4796‐8 © Emerald Group...

...Eric Glasgow Edited by Robin   Myers , Michael   Harris and Giles   Mandelbrote . Libraries and the Book Trade: The Formation of Collections from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century . New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press   First published 2000 . , ISBN: 1‐58456‐034‐7 (USA...

...Murray Simpson There are 12 essays in all, spanning the early sixteenth century to the present day. Of these, six are on various aspects of the US book trade, and these are the most rewarding and thought‐provoking chapters, starting with one on the Franco‐American trade at the end...

... . Books Have Their Fates . New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press   2001 . 198 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 58456 048 7   £24.00 ($34.95) Book trade Stories History ...

...‐researched contributions give a fascinating insight into the development of the book trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The understanding of editor Peter Isaac, which is mirrored in some of the featured essays, is that “books are more than objects; they are written by people”. Finding...

...William Baker Robert A.   Wilson . Seeing Shelley Plain . New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press   2001 . xii+238 pp. , ISBN: 1 58456 050 9   £27.50 Book trade USA There is a growing body of literature of memoirs of book shops from, for instance, George Sims...

...Murray C.T. Simpson Alastair J.   Mann . The Scottish Book Trade 1500‐1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland: An Historiographical Survey of the Early Modern Book in Scotland . East Linton : Tuckwell Press   2000 . [8] + 308 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 86232...

... yielded much of the evidence; consequently, it greatly enhances the heavily consulted article of Hilda Hamlyn’s in The Library, Vol. 5 No. 1, pp. 1846‐7. Although the theme of the book is ostensibly the changing relationship of libraries with the book trade from the sixteenth to the twentieth...

...Alan Day Edited by Robin   Myers and Michael   Harris . Journeys through the Market: Travel, Travellers and the Book Trade . Oak Knoll Press, Winchester; New Castle DE : St. Paul’s Bibliographies, Publishing Pathways series   1999 . xiii+152pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 87304 056 3...

...W. Malcolm Watson Anthony   Rota . Apart from the Text . Pinner, Middlesex : Private Libraries Association   1998 . 253 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 1 900002 47 6   £24.00 (£12 to members of the Private Libraries Association) Book trade This is the presentation volume...

...K.C. Harrison Edited by Peter   Isaac , Barry   McKay . The Reach of Print: Making, Selling and Using Books . St. Paul′s Bibliographies , 1998 . x + 228 pp , ISBN: 1 873040 51 2 , UK 75.00 Print Networks series istory Book trade United Kingdom What we...

... system. Despite government acceptance of the need for, and value of libraries, as entrenched in the National Policy for Education no funds have been made available to implement this policy decision at the primary and secondary school levels. © Company 1999 Book trade Education...

... Book trade History Printing Publishing This is the first in a new series edited by two distinguished British historians of printing and the book trade, Peter Isaac and Barry McKay, of papers presented at the annual seminars on the history of the British provincial book trade. Images...

... [On back of title page: (1) First published 1997 by The British Library, ... London ... ISBN 0‐7123‐0498‐3 (2) Published in North America in 1997 by University of Toronto Press Incorporated, Toronto and Buffalo. ISBN 0‐8020‐4216‐3 Book trade History Women This work is one of a new series...

... circulating library in the Strand, London: © MCB UP Limited 1998 Book trade History Libraries Reading United Kingdon I have been informed, that when circulating libraries were first opened, the booksellers were much alarmed, and their rapid increase added to their fears, had led them...

...K.C. Harrison Edited by Arnold   Hunt , Giles   Mandelbrote , Alison   Shell . The Book Trade and its Customers, 1450‐1900: Historical Essays for Robin Myers . New Castle, Delaware : Winchester and Oak Knoll Press   1997 . xviii + 306 pp , ISBN: 1 873040 42 3 , UK £44...

... how the book trade in Victorian England made its own forceful contributions to the advancement of literature, learning and libraries of all sorts. Perhaps we need now to recover something of the Victorian spirit of diligence and devotion to printed books, of all sorts, before we can fully appreciate...