History of Booksellers. The old and the new
Details:
- Author(s) Curwen, Henry
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1968
- Pages 2nd ed; 483pp; illus
- Publisher Chatto & Windus
- Place Published London
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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An early work. First published 1873. Contains a general account of early book trades - 'The booksellers of olden times' [pp9-78] - but largely contains profiles of 19th century publishers and of a few leaders in adjacent trades, viz: ' The Longman family - classical and educational literature' [pp79-109]; 'Constable, Cadell and Black - Edinburgh Review, Waverley Novels and Encyclopaedia Britannica' [pp110-58]; 'John Murray - belles lettres and travels' [pp159-98]; 'William Blackwood - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine' [pp199-233]; 'Chambers, Knight and Cassell - literature for the people' [pp234-78]; 'Henry Colburn - three novels and light literature' [[279-95]; 'The Rivingtons, the Parkers and James Nisbet - religious literature [pp296-332]; 'Edward Moxon - poetical literature' [pp347-62'; 'Kelly and Virtue - the 'number' trade' [pp363-78]; 'Thomas Tegg - book auctioneering and the remainder trade' [pp379-98]; 'Thomas Nelson - children's literature and 'book manufacturing'' [pp399-411]; 'Simpkin, Marshall & Co - collecting for the country trade' [pp412-20]; 'Charles Edward Mudie - the lending library' [pp421-32]; 'W H Smith & Son - railway literature' [pp433-40]. There is also a chapter 'Provincial booksellers' [pp441-83]