International standard book number
9781107668294
Shelfmark
Qc.2
Title
The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume 6, 1830-1914 / edited by David McKitterick.
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical description
xvii, 808 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English.
Note
First published: 2009.
Note
Publisher's paperback covers.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction / Changes in the look of the book / The illustration revolution / The serial revolution / Authorship / Copyright / Distribution / Reading / Mass markets: religion / Mass markets: education / Mass markets: children's books / Mass markets: literature / Science, technology and mathematics / Publishing for leisure / Publishing for trades and professions / Organising knowledge in print / The information revolution / A place in the world / Second-hand and old books / A year of publishing: 1891 / Following up The reading nation / David McKitterick -- David McKitterick -- Michael Twyman -- Graham Law and Robert L. Patten -- Patrick Leary and Andrew Nash -- Catherine Seville -- Stephen Colclough -- Stephen Colclough and David Vincent -- Michael Ledger-Lomas -- Christopher Stray and Gillian Sutherland -- Brian Alderson and Andrea Immel -- Simon Eliot and Andrew Nash -- James A. Secord -- Victoria Cooper and Dave Russell -- David McKitterick -- David McKitterick -- Aileen Fyfe -- John Barnes, Bill Bell, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Wallace Kirsop and Michael Winship -- David McKitterick -- Simon Eliot and Richard Freebury -- William St Clair.
Summary, etc.
Summary: 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.
Subject
Books Great Britain History 19th century.
Subject
Books Great Britain History 20th century.
Subject
Book industries and trade Great Britain History 19th century.
Subject
Book industries and trade Great Britain History 20th century.
Added entry--name
McKitterick, David editor.
Added entry--name
Cambridge University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53124