The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books.
Isaac, Peter; McKay, Barry. The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, [1998]. x, 228 pp. Publisher's green boards, fine. Internally clean. $20. * Contains thirteen interdisciplinary essays examining the production, commercial dissemination, and social reception of printed materials in the British provinces. Isaac, McKay, and a team of contributing book historians utilize municipal stationers' ledgers, local court archives, and printing house records to explore the expansion of print culture outside of London. Individual chapters analyze the economic and legal frameworks of regional book trades, the dissemination of radical political pamphlets, the printing of local legal forms and statutes, and the operational infrastructure of provincial newspaper networks during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
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