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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol. 6: 1830–1914

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1830–1914

Series The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 6

Edited by David McKitterick

Publication Date 2009

Hardback ISBN-10
0521866243

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521866248

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521866248

Overview

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 bookselling, this volume brings the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction
by
David McKitterick

Changes in the look of the book
by
David McKitterick

The illustration revolution
by
Michael Twyman

The serial revolution
by
Graham Law and Robert L. Patten

Authorship
by
Patrick Leary and Andrew Nash

Copyright
by
Catherine Seville

Distribution
by
Stephen Colclough

Reading
by
Stephen Colclough and David Vincent

Mass markets: religion
by
Michael Ledger-Lomas

Mass markets: education
by
Christopher Stray and Gillian Sutherland

Mass markets: children's books
by
Brian Alderson and Andrea Immel

Mass markets: literature
by
Simon Eliot and Andrew Nash

Science, technology and mathematics
by
James A. Secord

Publishing for leisure
by
Victoria Cooper and Dave Russell

Publishing for trades and professions
by
David McKitterick

Organising knowledge in print
by
David McKitterick

The information revolution
by
Aileen Fyfe

A place in the world
by
John Barnes, Bill Bell, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Wallace Kirsop and Michael Winship

Second-hand and old books
by
David McKitterick

A year of publishing: 1891
by
Simon Eliot and Richard Freebury

Following up The reading nation
by
William St Clair

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