The infinite
variety of people and places touched by the British
book trade is the focus of this eighth volume in the
Print Networks series. Based on a conference hosted
by the CHB, these papers - by established book historians
and younger scholars - reflect the complex networks
that existed between book trade people in the British
Isles and the wider colonial world, focusing on those
involved in the creation of the book, from author to
agent, publisher to printer, bookseller to reader.
Topics range
from Scotland's earliest printers to late twentieth-century
global marketing strategies, also exploring books in
and about central America, New Zealand, Australia, Elgin,
Northampton, and East Kent, among other diverse locations.
These essays demonstrate what the connections between
book trade practitioners locally and internationally
can tell us about the significance of print. They accomplish
this by analyzing the lives of the men and women who
created and lived in these fascinating 'worlds of print'.
Co-published with The British Library.
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