Medicine, Mortality, and the Book Trade.
Myers, Robin, editor. Harris, Michael, editor. Medicine, Mortality, and the Book Trade. Kent: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1998. xii, 158 pp. Publisher's black boards, fine. Internally clean and bright. $20. * Myers and Harris explore the historic relationship between the development of medical science, public health crises, and the economics of the early modern British book trade. Myers, Harris, and a team of contributing bibliographers utilize company ledgers, plague records, and institutional library archives to analyze the production and dissemination of medical literature. Individual chapters examine the printing and marketing of vernacular herbals, the distribution of popular plague pamphlets, the commercial growth of patent medicine advertising in provincial newspapers, and the specialized legal regulations governing the printing of medical charts and anatomical texts between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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