Light on the Book Trade. Essays in Honour of Peter Isaac.

Original publisher’s white paper-covered boards, blue title spine and frontcover, small illustration frontcover, 8vo: frontispiece portrait, xvi, 224pp., 18 contributions, illustrations, acknowledgements, notes, bibliographical notes, bibliography works Peter Isaac, list contributors, index. CONTRIBUTIONS: 1. John Feather: The History of the English Provincial Book Trade. 2. Lucy Lewis: ‘ For no text is an island, divided from the main ‘. Incunable Sammelbande. 3. David Stoker: Freeman and Susannah Collins and the Spread of English Provincial Printing. 4. Michael Powell: Talking Shop: The Diary of Edmund Harrold of Manchester. 5. Barry McKay: Books in Eighteen-Century Whitehaven. 6. David Hounslow: From George III to Queen Victoria: a provincial family and their books. 7. David N. Griffiths: Print, Privilege and Piracy in the Book of Common Prayer. 8. John Hinks: John Gregory and the ‘ Leicester Journal ‘. 9. John Gavin: Literary Institutions in the Lake Countries Part IV: Catalogues. 10: Margaret Cooper: Influential and Mysterious: The Career of Septimus Prowett: Bookseller, Publisher and Picture Dealer. 11. Caroline Archer [et al.]: Typography in Nineteenth-Century Children’s Readers: The Otley Connection. 12. Wallace Kirsop: Baker’s Juvenile Circulating Library in Sydney in the 1840s. 13. Iain Beavan: Staying the Course: the Edinburgh Cabinet Library 1830 – 1844. 14. Diana Dixon: Paths Through the Wilderness: Recording the History of Provincial newspapers in England. 15. Brenda Scragg: James Ecerett and the Sale of Adam Clarcke’s Library, 1833: a newly discovered manuscript. 16. Philip Henry Jones: Thomas Gee Senior. 17. R.J. Goulden: False Imprints and the Bridger Specimen Books. 18. Warrem McDougall: Charles Elliot’s Book Adventure in Philadelphia, and the Trouble with Thomas Dobson. – as new.