Publishing History

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Edited by Michael L. Turner, The Bodleian Library, Oxford and Simon Eliot, University of London

A scholarly journal devoted to the socio-economic and literary history of book, newspaper and magazine publishing.

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Index to Publishing History 1 to 40

Articles published: in chronological order (see below for alphabetical by author). For a continuation of this contents index from Volume 41 onwards, please visit HoBo.

Issue 1

A Directory of the London Book Trade, 1766 Terry Belanger
The Auction as a Means of Book Distribution in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire Elizabeth Swain
John Walter and the Logographic Press John Feather

Issue 2

Firma Tauchnitz: A further investigation William B. Todd
Negotiating for The Mill on the Floss R. F. Anderson
The Relation of Learned Societies and University Presses Walter Muir Whitehill
The Early Success of Pickwick J. Don Vann
What is the ‘History of Publishing’? A review article Morris Eaves

Issue 3

Pope and His Subscribers Pat Rogers
Some Recent Acquisitions of Publishing Archives by the National Library of Scotland Alan Bell
The Publication of Collected Editions of Bulwer Lytton’s Novels Elizabeth James
The First Trinidad Guardian Roderick Cave
Under Two Flags: The publishing history of a best-seller Celia Phillips
The Bibliothèque Bleue: A review article Henri-Jean Martin

Issue 4

The English Market for Printed Books Graham Pollard
The Minute Book of the Partners in the Grub Street Journal
The Management of the London Newspaper Press during the Eighteenth Century Michael Harris
The Background and Significance of the Rambler’s Format James F. Woodruff

Issue 5

Aspects of the Victorian Novel Michael Sadleir
Government Control of the Press after the Expiration of the Printing Act in 1679 Timothy Crist
Finance, Politics and Editorial Independence in the Early Victorian Provincial Press: The case of the Glasgow Argus 1833-1847 Kenneth J. Cameron
Printing Privileges in Spain: Nebrija’s Latin grammar as a source of income in eighteenth-century Madrid Diana M. Thomas
The Regulation of the Book Trade in Norwich 1500-1800 David Stoker

Issue 6

John Camden Hotten and the First British Editions of Walt Whitman – ‘A Nice Milky Cocoa-Nut’ Morton D. Paley
Carlyle and the Book Clubs: A new approach to publishing? Heather Henderson
The Tauchnitz Edition: Beginning and end of a famous series Karl H. Pressler
Thomas Longman and Lothair Thom Braun
Country Book Trade Apprentices 1710-1760 John Feather
Some Recent German Periodicals on Book and Book-Trade History: A summary Georgina Warrilow

Issue 7

London Printers and Printing Houses in 1705 Michael Treadwell
Publishers’ Readers, Publishers, and Their Authors Linda Marie Fritschner

Issue 8

Victorian Newspaper Advertising: Counting what counts Scott Bennett
The Book Trade in Politics: The making of the Copyright Act of 1710 John Feather
The Press of the French Antilles: A history of listing of periodicals John A. Lent
Napoleon’s Description de l’Egypte: Problems of corporate authorship Michael W. Albin
Astrology, Almanacks and Booksellers: A review article Michael Harris

Issue 9

John Ruskin, George Allen and American Pirated Books Brian Maidment
A Measure of Success: The publication of natural history journals in early Victorian Britain Susan Sheets-Pyenson
Beaumarchais’s Reading Public in 1809 Donald C. Spinelli
Gentle Printer Barbara Halporn
Some Recent German Periodicals on Book and Book-Trade History: A summary Georgina Warrilow

Issue 10

The Role of the Publisher in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Literature Madeleine B. Stern
Mason Weems, Mathew Carey and the Southern Booktrade James Gilreath
Thomas Meighan: Notes on the father of Catholic bookselling in England C. J. Mitchell
A Canadian Publishing House: Some notes on the Macmillan Company of Canada Archive at McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Canada Bruce Whiteman
An Insight into the Management of Railway Bookstalls in the Eighteen Fifties Elizabeth James
Some Recent German Periodicals on Book and Book-Trade History: A summary Georgina Warrilow

Issue 11

‘Things Wisely Ordered’: John Blackwood, George Eliot, and the publication of Romola R. F. Anderson
Victorian Publishing and Social Criticism: The case of Edward Jenkins B. E. Maidment
Document: Bentley’s Advertising Procedures

Issue 12

Claude Aveline: A publisher of fine editions in the Paris of the 1920s Gabriel Jacobs
Silent Companions: The dissemination of books and periodicals in nineteenth-century Ontario John A. Wiseman
The English Book Trade and the Law 1695-1799 John Feather
‘A Contemptible Piece of Ribaldry’: The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser offends the Bourbons Jeremy Black
Document: Henry George De Bunsen. The Hawker: His Work and His Day
Review of Fabian: Register zum Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens. Band I-XX. Frankfurt am Main, Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 1981 Georgina Warrilow

Issue 13

United States Copyright Deposit Copies of Books and Pamphlets Printed Before 1820 Roger E. Stoddard
The Press, Party and Foreign Policy in the Reign of George I Jeremy Black
Thomas Nelson and Sons in the Late Nineteenth Century: A study in motivation. Part 1 John A. H. Dempster
Book-Trade Archives. The Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (1554-1912) Robin Myers
Review of Barnes and Barnes: Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1980 M. R. D. Foot

Issue 14

Thomas Nelson and Sons in the Late Nineteenth Century: A study in motivation. Part 2 John A. H. Dempster
The Cambridge University Press in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Charles John Clay and the partnership M. H. Black
The Publishing Career of Robert Crowley: A sidelight on the Tudor book trade J. W. Martin
Review of Carpenter and Pritchard (eds): The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1984 Gillian Avery

Issue 15

The Battle of the Shorthand Books Joel J. Gold
Sequestrations in the Scottish Printing and Book Trade Michael S. Moss
An ‘Incomprehensible Innovation’: The application of copyright law to hymn publishing in the Church of England Susan Drain
The Wages of Success: ‘Miss Marjoribanks’, Margaret Oliphant and the House of Blackwood J. A. Haythornthwaite

Issue 16

The 1509 Dispute over Donatus. Humanist editor as controversialist James V. Mehl
The Preface as a Platform for Theories of Translation Ignacio Navarrete
Sebastian Brant’s Editions of Classical Authors Barbara Halporn
The British Book Trade, 1701 to 1800 Robin Alston
The ‘Veiled Editor’ Unveiled. William Blackwood and his magazine Maurice Milne

Issue 17

The Business of Paternoster Row: Towards a publishing history of the Universal History (1736-65) Guido Abbattista
Victorian Poetry Anthologies: Their role and success in the nineteenth-century book market Sabine Haass
Russian Literary Almanacs of the 1820s and Their Legacy Miranda Beaven
Falsely Attributed to Lord Bolingbroke? Jeremy Black

Issue 18

James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni and The Castle of Otranto. Some unpublished letters Rosa Edwards
The Federal Writers’ Project. Work relief that preserved a national resource William S. Cramer
Bible and Tract. Disseminating missionary literature in nineteenth-century Ontario John A. Wiseman
The French Revolution and Developments in the London Daily Press to 1793 K. Schweizer and R. Klein

Issue 19

Print-World Ideology and the Double-Natured Stage. Towards an alliance 1660-1700 Julie Stone Peters
Spenser Wilkinson at Bay: Calling the tune at the Morning Post, 1908-1909 Keith M. Wilson
Fresh Light on Ministerial Patronage of Eighteenth-Century Pamphlets Jeremy Black
Henry Colburn Publisher John Sutherland
The Japanese Press Abroad. The case of the Singapore Herald Brian Bridges

Issue 20

The Correspondence between Lord John Russell and the Publishing Trade J. M. Goldstrom
Aspects of Brethren Publishing Enterprise in Late Nineteenth-Century Scotland John A. H. Dempster
Review of Parker: The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1985 Bruce Whiteman

Issue 21

Provincial Printing in Eighteenth-Century Britain C. J. Mitchell
'His Generation Read His Stories’. Walter Besant, Chatto and Windus and All Sorts and Conditions of Men Simon Eliot
The Porpoise Press 1930-1939 Alistair McCleery
Conducting the Gazette. Comments by the printer in 1757 Jeremy Black
Review of Martin, Chartier, Vivet (eds): Histoire de l’édition française. Tome 1, Le Livre conquérant, du Moyen Age au milieu de XVIIe siècle. Paris, Promodis, 1982 Giles Barber

Issue 22

The Publishers and the Pirates. British copyright law in theory and practice, 1710-1775 John Feather
Histoire du Livre. Geschichte des Buchwesens. An agenda for comparative history Robert Darnton
Railway Publishing R. M. S. Hall
Irene Osgood, John Richmond Limited and the Wilde Circle Kevin H. F. O’Brien
Review of Black: The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. Croom Helm, 1987 Michael Harris
Review of Feather: The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press, 1985 Paul Morgan

Issue 23

Mary Westwood, Quaker Publisher Maureen Bell
Publishing by the Author. A case study of Dru Drury’s ‘Illustrations of Natural History’ (1770-82) William Noblett
The Sunny Side of New Grub Street. The writing of Douglas Sladen’s autobiography Simon Eliot
Review Article: Party Strife and the Augustan Press Jeremy Black

Issue 24

‘In the Savoy’. John Nutt and his family John Horden
‘Inserting a Lie’. The Daily Advertiser and the Earl of Hertford in 1742 Jeremy Black
The Publication of Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1750-70 James Raven
Publishers and Politicians: The remaking of the law of copyright in Britain 1775-1842. Part I: Legal deposit and the battle of the library tax John Feather
Childhood and Children’s Literature: The case of M. J. Godwin and Co., 1805-25 Margaret Kinnell

Issue 25

In Search of a Scandalous Pamphlet: Sir Robert Walpole and the attempt to suppress the publication of Opposition literature in the United Provinces Jeremy Black
The Publication of Benjamin Gooch’s Surgical Works, 1765-74 J. D. Alsop
The Book Peddler and Literary Dissemination. The case of Parson Weems Ronald J. Zboray
Publishers and Politicians: The remaking of the law of copyright in Britain 1775-1842. Part II: The rights of authors John Feather
London’s Suburban Directories: 1827-circa 1975 P. J. Atkins

Issue 26

Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51 Maureen Bell
Meddling in French Domestic Politics: A project for a British-funded newspaper in 1732 Jeremy Black
Unequal Partnerships: Besant, Rice and Chatto, 1876-82 Simon Eliot

Issue 27

The Bankruptcy of William Pickering in 1853: The hazards of publishing and bookselling in the first half of the nineteenth century Bernard Warrington
Writing for Their Lives: Women applicants to the Royal Literary Fund, 1840-1880 S. D. Mumm
The Archives of Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg Heinz Sarkowski
Location and Analysis of the Historical Publications Produced by Agencies of the United States Government During the Era of the American Revolution Bicentennial, 1974-76 Steven D. Zink
Review of E. S. Leedham-Green: Books in Cambridge Inventories: Book lists from the Vice-Chancellor’s Court Probate Inventories in the Tudor and Stuart periods. Cambridge University Press, 1987 R. J. Roberts

Issue 28

Publishing the Oxford Movement: Francis Rivington’s letters to Newman Lawrence N. Crumb
Isaac N. Whiting: Pioneer bookseller and publisher of Columbus, Ohio Gerald S. Greenberg
Friendly Encounters: A study of the relationship between the House of Blackwood and Margaret Oliphant in her role as literary critic J. A. Haythornthwaite
In Search of Cygnets: The Alan Steele manuscripts collection Barbara L. Bell

Issue 29

The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583): A preliminary survey John Barnard and Maureen Bell

Issue 30

History, Science, and the History of the Book: The making of natural philosophy in early modern England Adrian Johns
Prosperity and Success in the Eighteenth-Century English Provincial Book Trade: The firm of William Chase & Co. David Stoker
Edward Garnett, Publisher’s Reader, and Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Writer of Books Dorothy W. Collin
Review of R. A. Leigh: Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, edited by J. T. A. Leigh. Cambridge University Press, 1990 Giles Barber
Review of Robin Myers: The Stationers’ Company Archive: An Account of the Records 1554-1984. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1990 C. Y. Ferdinand

Issue 31

Sustained Literary Ventures: The series in Victorian book publishing Leslie Howsam
The Camelot Series, Everyman’s Library, and Ernest Rhys John R. Turner
German Emigré Publishers in New York: The archives of the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1940-86 Don C. Skemer
Project Report: Provisional Count of STC Titles, 1475-1640 Maureen Bell and John Barnard
Project Report: History of the Book in Britain: Reports by the Leverhulme Fellows
Project Report: History of the Book – On Demand Series (HOBODS)
Project Report: An Introduction to the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) Jonathan Rose
Conference Proceedings: The History of the Book: Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, July 1991
Review of Marjorie Moon: Benjamin Tabart’s Juvenile Library: A Bibliography of Books for Children Published, Written, Edited and Sold by Mr. Tabart 1801-1820. Winchester, St Paul’s Bibliographies; Detroit, Omnigraphics, 1990 Andrea Immel

Issue 32

Elizabeth Calvert and the ‘Confederates’ Maureen Bell
Books in the South and the Two-Culture Theory of Colonial Society: An interpretative essay James Gilreath
Conference Proceedings: The Book in Britain 1830-1914: Colloquium, 4-5 July 1992
Project Report: History of the Book – On Demand Series (HOBODS)
Review of Leslie Howsam: Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-century publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society. Cambridge University Press, 1991 John Farrell

Issue 33

A Quantitative Survey: George Bell & Sons Alexis Weedon
Pious Verse in the Mid-Victorian Market Place: Facts and figures Rosemary Scott
William Pickering and the Development of Publishers’ Binding in the Early Nineteenth Century Bernard Warrington
Book Subscriptions in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy Françoise Waquet
The Yorkshire Post, Conservative Central Office, and the Negotiations for the Purchase of the Morning Post, 1923-24 Keith M. Wilson
Conference Proceedings: The History of Book Publishing in Australia: Conference to commemorate the seventieth birthday of the Melbourne University Press, 30-31 October 1992
Review of Tessa Watt: Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History). Cambridge University Press, 1991 Maureen Bell

Issue 34

Selling Books Across Europe, c. 1450-1800: An overview James Raven
‘The Secret’: British publishers and Mudie’s struggle for economic survival 1861-64 David Finkelstein
Forgotten Victorians: Contracts with authors in the publication books of Henry S. King and Kegan Paul, Trench 1871-89 Leslie Howsam
Conference Proceedings: SHARP: The Inaugural Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). New York, 9-11 June 1993 [Part I]

Issue 35

‘Her Usual Practices’: The later career of Elizabeth Calvert, 1664-75 Maureen Bell
Soviet Publishing: Some historical landmarks in Soviet Russia E. A. Dinerstein
Conference Proceedings: SHARP: The Inaugural Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP). New York, 9-11 June 1993 [Part II]
Review of N. N. Feltes: Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel. University of Wisconsin Press, 1993 David Finkelstein

Issue 36

Some Features of the Stationers’ Company and its Stock in 1676/7 John Barnard
Continuity and Change in the British Press, 1750-1833 Jeremy Black
Effingham Wilson: The Radical Publisher of the Royal Exchange Eric W. Nye
Two Centuries of Printing: Book production history diagrams Michael Twyman

Issue 37

Saint-Pierre’s Studies of Nature: The first American edition Madeleine B. Stern
‘A Regular Illustrated Book’: William Allingham and his Pre-Raphaelite friends make The Music Master, 1854-55 Timothy W. Boyd
Two Unpublished Letters from John Blackwood on the Serialization of Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede Carol A. Martin
Newspaper Syndicates of the Late Nineteenth Century: Overlooked forces in the American literary market-place Charles Johanningsmeier
Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals and Erotica Mail Order Dealers of the Thirties: A study in administrative authority in the United States Jay A. Gertzman

Issue 38

‘Give Me The Sociable Pocket-Books...’: Humphrey Moseley’s serial publication of octavo play collections Paulina Kewes
Newspaper Advertising in a Pioneer Colony: Twenty years in Port Nick (Wellington, New Zealand) K. A. Coleridge
Beman Gates and the Marietta Intelligencer 1839-56 Gerald S. Greenberg
Sizzle and Smoke: Iconography of books and reading in modern American advertising Megan Benton
The Printing of Science: A further listing Michael Cahn

Issue 39

Book Collecting and Bookselling in the Seventeenth Century: Notions of rarity and identification of value Jacqueline Glomski
Michael Johnson, the ‘Lichfield Librarian’ J. D. Fleeman
Foreign Policy and the Eighteenth-Century English Press: The case of Israel Mauduit’s Considerations of the Present German War Karl W. Schweizer
Compiling A Guide to English Fiction of the 1860s Monica Correa Fryckstedt
The Reading Experience Database: Problems and possibilities Simon Eliot

Issue 40

William Davison of Alnwick and Provincial Publishing in His Time Peter Isaac
Those Famous American Periodicals – The Bible, The Odyssey and Paradise Lost – Or, the Great Second-Class Mail Swindle Lydia Cushman Schurman
The Clothbound Universe: Popular physics books, 1919-39 Michael Whitworth
On the Attribution of Periodicals and Newspapers to Daniel Defoe P. N. Furbank and W. R. Owens
Bringing Love to Book: The compilation and reception of a bibliography Juliet Flesch
Review of Michael Winship: American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The business of Ticknor and Fields. Cambridge University Press, 1995 David Finkelstein

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