'Three bankruptcies in the London book trade, 1746-61. Rivington, Knapton and Osborn' in O M Brack (ed), Writers, Books and Trade. An eighteenth century English miscellany for William B Todd
Details:
- Author(s) Hernlund, Patricia
- Publication type Chapter
- Year published 1994
- Pages pp77-122
- Publisher AMS Press
- Place Published New York NY
Topics:
- Name Business/Industry failure, decline, lack of success, etc: collapse of businesses
- Name Management practices
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Deals with the bankruptcies of James Rivington, 1760 [pp81-96]; of John Knapton, 1755 [pp96-100]; and of John Osborn, 1751 [pp100-8]. These are attributed to their 'outmoded business practices based on slow, amiable exchanges among a small group of relatives and friends. Their mistakes can tell us much about the pressures that were changing the London trade towards adopting the administrative attitudes of modern business'