THE BOOK TRADE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND: Practices, Perceptions, Connections.
Pp. xxii+268(last blank), frontispiece, text figures (some full page), index; demy 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt; small indentation to top edge centre of lower board; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, DE./London, 2013. First edition. Print Networks series. *'In the late fifteenth century, the book trade in England was modest in scale and ambition, hamstrung by legislation, centred in London and heavily dependent on its European connections. During the seventeenth century a nationwide market for books emerged and in 1695 the Printing (Licensing) Act lapsed, allowing provincial printing to develop. By the early decades of the eighteenth century the trade had been radically transformed... These essays, from recent 'Print Networks' conferences, shed light on this transformation, revealing the practices and perceptions of authors, translators, producers and collectors, the shifting geographical networks that characterized the early modern book trade and, crucially, what these changes meant for readers' [wrapper blurb]. Item #130095
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