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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
David Mckitterick (Ed.)
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Description for The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
hardcover. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling. Editor(s): McKitterick, David. Series: The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Num Pages: 826 pages, 22 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJC; HBTB; KNTP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 168 x 236 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1338.
The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and ... Read more
The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
826
Condition
New
Series
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
Number of Pages
826
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521866248
SKU
V9780521866248
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About David Mckitterick (Ed.)
David McKitterick is Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography in the University of Cambridge.
Reviews for The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
'The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is one of the great scholarly enterprises of our time … Far from being a series of good essays on interesting topics, taken as a whole this book is not merely the best history of the book in nineteenth-century Britain which we have. It is, in the present state of our knowledge, ... Read more