The Business of Books. Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1850
New Haven, Yale University Press, 2007.
Large octavo, xviii, 493 pages with numerous illustrations.
Papered boads; an excellent copy with the slightly creased dustwrapper.
'A lively and original account of the English book trade and the printers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs who promoted its development ... Raven offers a new interpretation of the genesis of literature and literary commerce in England. He draws on extensive archival sources to reconstruct the successes and failures of those involved in the book trade - a cast of heroes and heroines, villains, and rogues [revising] our understanding of the massive popularization of the book' (dustwrapper).
Item #130711
Price (AUD):
$80.00