Includes bibliographical references and index The publication of The Mayor of Quinborough (1661) and the printer's identity / Mariko Nagase Generally very tedious, often trifling : promoting eighteenth-century travel collections / Matthew Day Labor ipse voluptas : John Nichols's Swiftiana / Daniel Cook Pirates, editors, and readers : how distribution rewrote William Smellie's Philosophy of natural history / Stephen W. Brown Thomas Ruddiman : librarian, publisher, printer and collector / Brian Hillyard The poet and his publishers : shaping Tennyson's public image / Jim Cheshire Text in context : the law and the lady and the graphic / Catherine Delafield Boz versus Dickens : paratext, pseudonyms and serialization in the Victorian literary marketplace / Rob Allen The operation of literary institutions in the construction of national literary aesthetics in Fadia Faqir's My name is Salma (2007) / Rachel Bower La conquest du sang real : Edward, Second Viscount Conway's quest for books / Daniel Starza Smith Who was Dr James Fraser of Chelsea? / Iain Beavan Titus Wheatcroft : an eighteenth-century reader and his manuscripts / Maureen Bell Singing by the book : eighteenth-century Scottish songbooks, freemasonry, and Burns / Stephen W. Brown The sale of James West's library in 1773 / William Noblett The Linen Hall Library : provincial-metropolitan connections in the late eighteenth century / S.C. Arndt Was Sir Walter Scott a bibliomaniac? / Lindsay Levy Several tons of books : the creation, travels and rediscovery of Thomas Cassidy's recusant library / Joseph Marshall Love, blood, and teddy bears : twopenny libraries, parliament, and the law of retail trade in the 1930s / K.A. Manley My own small private library : USA Armed Services editions and the culture of collecting / Helen Smith. |
