Publishing History

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

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

This specialist bi-annual journal covers the whole spectrum of publishing from the author to the reader, and contains scholarly articles; memoirs by contemporary publishers; conference papers; archive listings; and reviews, annotations and fascimile reprints of important documents relating to the history of 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

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

Economics and the Emergence of Modern Publishing in the United States Joshua L. Rosenbloom

History of the Book in Britain: Reports by the Leverhulme Fellows

The Renaissance Book in Britain: Summaries of Conference Proceedings at Warwick University, December 1990

Review of Henry Fielding: The Covent-Garden Journal and A Plan Of The Universal Register-Office, ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988 Michael Harris

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

 

Articles published: alphabetically by author (with announcements and documents at top)

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Bentley’s Advertising Procedures (document) 11

The Book in Britain 1830-1914: Colloquium, 4-5 July 1992 32

Grub Street Journal Minute Book (document) 4

Henry George De Bunsen. The Hawker: His Work and His Day 12

The History of Book Publishing in Australia: Conference to commemorate the seventieth birthday of the Melbourne University Press, 30-31 October 1992 33

The History of the Book: Eighth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Bristol, July 1991 31

The History of the Book in Britain: Reports by the Leverhulme Fellows 29, 31

The History of the Book – On Demand Series (HOBODS) 31, 32

The Renaissance Book in Britain: Summaries of Conference Proceedings at Warwick University, December 1990 29

SHARP: The Inaugural Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship; Reading and Publishing (SHARP). New York, 9-11 June 1993 [Part I] 34

SHARP: The Inaugural Conference of the Society for the History of Authorship; Reading and Publishing (SHARP). New York, 9-11 June 1993 [Part II] 35

Abbattista, Guido The Business of Paternoster Row: Towards a publishing history of the Universal History (1736-65) 17

Albin, Michael W. Napoleon’s Description de l’Egypte: Problems of corporate authorship 8

Alsop, J. D. The Publication of Benjamin Gooch’s Surgical Works, 1765-74 25

Alston, Robin The British Book Trade, 1701 to 1800 16

Anderson, R. F. Negotiating for The Mill on the Floss 2

----- ‘Things Wisely Ordered’: John Blackwood, George Eliot, and the publication of Romola 11

Atkins, P. J. London’s Suburban Directories: 1827-circa 1975 25

Avery, Gillian Review of Carpenter and Pritchard (eds): The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press, 1984 14

Barber, Giles 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 21

----- Review of R. A. Leigh: Unsolved Problems in the Bibliography of J.-J. Rousseau, edited by
J. T. A. Leigh. Cambridge University Press, 1990 30

Barnard, John Some Features of the Stationers’ Company and its Stock in 1676/7 36

----- [with Maureen Bell] The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583): A preliminary survey 29

----- Provisional Count of STC Titles, 1475- 1640 31

Beaven, Miranda Russian Literary Almanacs of the 1820s and Their Legacy 17

Belanger, Terry A Directory of the London Book Trade,
1766 1

Bell, Alan Some Recent Acquisitions of Publishing Archives by the National Library of
Scotland 3

Bell, Barbara L. In Search of Cygnets: The Alan Steele manuscripts collection 28

Bell, Maureen Elizabeth Calvert and the ‘Confederates’ 32

----- Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51 26

----- ‘Her Usual Practices’: The later career of Elizabeth Calvert, 1664-75 35

----- Mary Westwood, Quaker Publisher 23

----- Review of Tessa Watt: Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History). Cambridge University Press, 1991 33

----- [with John Barnard] The Inventory of Henry Bynneman (1583): A preliminary survey 29

----- Provisional Count of STC Titles, 1475-1640 31

Bennett, Scott Victorian Newspaper Advertising: Counting what counts 8

Benton, Megan Sizzle and Smoke: Iconography of books and reading in modern American advertising 38

----- Conducting the Gazette. Comments by the printer in 1757 21

Black, Jeremy ‘A Contemptible Piece of Ribaldry’: The Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser offends the Bourbons 12

----- Continuity and Change in the British Press, 1750-1833 36

----- Falsely Attributed to Lord Bolingbroke? 17

----- Fresh Light on Ministerial Patronage of Eighteenth-Century Pamphlets 19

----- In Search of a Scandalous Pamphlet: Sir Robert Walpole and the attempt to suppress the publication of Opposition literature in the United Provinces 25

----- ‘Inserting a Lie’. The Daily Advertiser and the Earl of Hertford in 1742 24

----- Meddling in French Domestic Politics: A project for a British-funded newspaper in 1732 26

----- The Press, Party and Foreign Policy in the Reign of George I 13

----- Review Article: Party Strife and the Augustan Press 23

Black, M. H. The Cambridge University Press in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: Charles John Clay and the partnership 14

Boyd, Timothy W. ‘A Regular Illustrated Book’: William Allingham and his Pre-Raphaelite friends make The Music Master, 1854-55 37

Braun, Thom Thomas Longman and Lothair 6

Bridges, Brian The Japanese Press Abroad. The case of the Singapore Herald 19

Cahn, Michael The Printing of Science: A further listing 38

Cameron, Kenneth J. Finance, Politics and Editorial Independence in the Early Victorian Provincial Press: The case of the Glasgow Argus 1833-1847 5

Cave, Roderick The First Trinidad Guardian 3

Coleridge, K. A. Newspaper Advertising in a Pioneer Colony: Twenty years in Port Nick (Wellington, New Zealand) 38

Collin, Dorothy W. Edward Garnett, Publisher’s Reader, and Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Writer of Books 30

Cramer, William S. The Federal Writers’ Project. Work relief that preserved a national resource 18

Crist, Timothy Government Control of the Press after the Expiration of the Printing Act in 1679 5

Crumb, Lawrence N. Publishing the Oxford Movement: Francis Rivington’s letters to Newman 28

Darnton, Robert Histoire du Livre. Geschichte des Buchwesens. An agenda for comparative history 22

Dempster, John A. H. Aspects of Brethren Publishing Enterprise in Late Nineteenth-Century Scotland 20

----- Thomas Nelson and Sons in the Late Nineteenth Century: A study in motivation. Part 1 13;Part 2 14

Dinerstein, E. A. Soviet Publishing: Some historical landmarks in Soviet Russia 35

Drain, Susan An ‘Incomprehensible Innovation’: The application of copyright law to hymn publishing in the Church of England 15

Eaves, Morris What is the ‘History of Publishing’? A review article 2

Edwards, Rosa James Edwards, Giambattista Bodoni and The Castle of Otranto. Some unpublished letters 18

Eliot, Simon ‘His Generation Read His Stories’. Walter Besant, Chatto and Windus and All Sorts and Conditions of Men 21

----- The Reading Experience Database: Problems and possibilities 39

----- The Sunny Side of New Grub Street. The writing of Douglas Sladen’s autobiography 23

-----Unequal Partnerships: Besant, Rice and Chatto, 1876-82 26

Farrell, John Review of Leslie Howsam: Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-century publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society. Cambridge University Press, 1991 32

Feather, John The Book Trade in Politics: The making of the Copyright Act of 1710 8

----- Country Book Trade Apprentices 1710-1760 6

----- The English Book Trade and the Law 1695-1799 12

----- John Walter and the Logographic Press 1

----- 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 24

----- Part II: The rights of authors 25

----- The Publishers and the Pirates. British copyright law in theory and practice, 1710-1775 22

Ferdinand, C. Y. Review of Robin Myers: The Stationers’ Company Archive: An Account of the Records 1554-1984. Winchester: St Paul’s Bibliographies, 1990 30

Finkelstein, David ‘The Secret’: British publishers and Mudie's struggle for economic survival 1861-64 34

----- Review of Michael Winship: American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The business of Ticknor and Fields. Cambridge University Press, 1995 40

----- Review of N. N. Feltes: Literary Capital and the Late Victorian Novel. University of Wisconsin Press, 1993 35

Fleeman, J. D. Michael Johnson, the ‘Lichfield Librarian’ 39

Flesch, Juliet Bringing Love to Book: The compilation and reception of a bibliography 40

Foot, M. R. D. Review of Barnes and Barnes: Hitler’s Mein Kampf in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930-1939. Cambridge University Press, 1980 13

Fritschner, Linda Marie Publishers’ Readers, Publishers, and Their Authors 7

Fryckstedt, Monica C. Compiling A Guide to English Fiction of the 1860s 39

Furbank, P. N. [with W. R. Owens] On the Attribution of Periodicals and Newspapers to Daniel Defoe 40

Gertzman, Jay A. Postal Service Guardians of Public Morals and Erotica Mail Order Dealers of the Thirties: A study in administrative authority in the United States 37

Gilreath, James Books in the South and the Two-Culture Theory of Colonial Society: An interpretative essay 32

Mason Weems, Mathew Carey and the Southern Booktrade 10

Glomski, Jacqueline Book Collecting and Bookselling in the Seventeenth Century: Notions of rarity and identification of value 39

Gold, Joel J. The Battle of the Shorthand Books 15

Goldstrom, J. M. The Correspondence between Lord John Russell and the Publishing Trade 20

Greenberg, Gerald S. Beman Gates and the Marietta Intelligencer 1839-56 38

----- Isaac N. Whiting: Pioneer bookseller and publisher of Columbus, Ohio 28

Haass, Sabine Victorian Poetry Anthologies: Their role and success in the nineteenth-century book market 17

Hall, R. M. S. Railway Publishing 22

Halporn, Barbara Gentle Printer 9

----- Sebastian Brant’s Editions of Classical Authors 16

Harris, Michael Astrology, Almanacks and Booksellers: A review article 8

----- The Management of the London Newspaper Press during the Eighteenth Century 4

----- Review of Black: The English Press in the Eighteenth Century. Croom Helm, 1987 22

----- Review of Henry Fielding: The Covent Garden Journal and A Plan Of The Universal Register-Office, ed. Bertrand A. Goldgar. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1988 29

Haythornthwaite, J. A. Friendly Encounters: A study of the relationship between the House of Blackwood and Margaret Oliphant in her role as literary critic 28

----- The Wages of Success: ‘Miss Marjoribanks’, Margaret Oliphant and the House of Blackwood 15

Henderson, Heather Carlyle and the Book Clubs: A new approach to publishing? 6

Horden, John ‘In the Savoy’. John Nutt and his family 24

Howsam, Leslie Forgotten Victorians: Contracts with authors in the publication books of Henry S. King and Kegan Paul, Trench 1871-89 34

----- Sustained Literary Ventures: The series in Victorian book publishing 31

Immel, Andrea 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 31

Isaac, Peter William Davison of Alnwick and Provincial Publishing in His Time 40

Jacobs, Gabriel Claude Aveline: A publisher of fine editions in the Paris of the 1920s 12

James, Elizabeth An Insight into the Management of Railway Bookstalls in the Eighteen Fifties 10

----- The Publication of Collected Editions of Bulwer Lytton’s Novels 3

Johanningsmeier, C. Newspaper Syndicates of the Late Nineteenth Century: Overlooked forces in the American literary market-place 37

Johns, Adrian History, Science, and the History of the Book: The making of natural philosophy in early modern England 30

Kewes, Paulina ‘Give Me The Sociable Pocket-Books...’: Humphrey Moseley’s serial publication of octavo play collections 38

Kinnell, Margaret Childhood and Children’s Literature: The case of M. J. Godwin and Co., 1805-25 24

Klein, R. The French Revolution and Developments in

-----[with K. Schweizer] the London Daily Press to 1793 18

Lent, John A. The Press of the French Antilles: A history of listing of periodicals 8

McCleery, Alistair The Porpoise Press 1930-1939 21

Maidment, B. E. Victorian Publishing and Social Criticism: The case of Edward Jenkins 11

Maidment, Brian John Ruskin, George Allen and American Pirated Books 9

Martin, Carol A. Two Unpublished Letters from John Blackwood on the Serialization of Scenes of Clerical Life and Adam Bede 37

Martin, Henri-Jean The Bibliothèque Bleue: A review article 3

Martin, J. W. The Publishing Career of Robert Crowley: A sidelight on the Tudor book trade 14

Mehl, James V. The 1509 Dispute over Donatus. Humanist editor as controversialist 16

Milne, Maurice The ‘Veiled Editor’ Unveiled. William Blackwood and his magazine 16

Mitchell, C. J. Provincial Printing in Eighteenth-Century Britain 21

Thomas Meighan: Notes on the father of Catholic bookselling in England 10

Morgan, Paul Review of Feather: The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press, 1985 22

Moss, Michael S. Sequestrations in the Scottish Printing and Book Trade 15

Mumm, S. D. Writing for Their Lives: Women applicants to the Royal Literary Fund, 1840-1880 27

Myers, Robin Book-Trade Archives. The Records of the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (1554-1912) 13

Navarrete, Ignacio The Preface as a Platform for Theories of Translation 16

Noblett, William Publishing by the Author. A case study of Dru Drury’s ‘Illustrations of Natural History’ (1770-82) 23

Nye, Eric W. Effingham Wilson: The Radical Publisher of the Royal Exchange 36

O’Brien, Kevin H. F. Irene Osgood, John Richmond Limited and the Wilde Circle 22

Owens, W. R. [with P. N. Furbank] On the Attribution of Periodicals and Newspapers to Daniel Defoe 40

Paley, Morton D. John Camden Hotten and the First British Editions of Walt Whitman – ‘A Nice Milky Cocoa-Nut’ 6

Peters, Julie Stone Print-World Ideology and the Double-Natured Stage. Towards an alliance 1660-1700 19

Phillips, Celia Under Two Flags: The publishing history of a best-seller 3

Pollard, Graham The English Market for Printed Books 4

Pressler, Karl H. The Tauchnitz Edition: Beginning and end of a famous series 6

Raven, James The Publication of Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1750-70 24

Selling Books Across Europe, c. 1450-1800: An overview 34

Roberts, R. J. 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 27

Rogers, Pat Pope and His Subscribers 3

Rose, Jonathan An Introduction to the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 31

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. Economics and the Emergence of Modern Publishing in the United States 29

Sadleir, Michael Aspects of the Victorian Novel 5

Sarkowski, Heinz The Archives of Springer-Verlag in Heidelberg 27

Schurman, Lydia C. Those Famous American Periodicals – The Bible, The Odyssey and Paradise Lost – Or, the Great Second-Class Mail Swindle 40

Schweizer, K. [with R. Klein];The French Revolution and Developments in the London Daily Press to 1793 18

Schweizer, Karl W. Foreign Policy and the Eighteenth-Century English Press: The case of Mauduit’s Considerations of the Present German War 39

Scott, Rosemary Pious Verse in the Mid-Victorian Market Place: Facts and figures 33

Sheets-Pyenson, Susan A Measure of Success: The publication of natural history journals in early Victorian Britain 9

Skemer, Don C. German Emigré Publishers in New York: The archives of the Frederick Ungar Publishing Company, 1940-86 31

Spinelli, Donald C. Beaumarchais’s Reading Public in 1809 9

Stern, Madeleine B. The Role of the Publisher in Mid-Nineteenth Century American Literature 10

----- Saint-Pierre’s Studies of Nature: The first American edition 37

Stoddard, Roger E. United States Copyright Deposit Copies of Books and Pamphlets Printed Before 1820 13

Stoker, David Prosperity and Success in the Eighteenth-Century English Provincial Book Trade: The firm of William Chase & Co. 30

----- The Regulation of the Book Trade in Norwich 1500-1800 5

Sutherland, John Henry Colburn Publisher 19

Swain, Elizabeth The Auction as a Means of Book Distribution in Eighteenth-Century Yorkshire 1

Thomas, Diana M. Printing Privileges in Spain: Nebrija’s Latin grammar as a source of income in eighteenth- century Madrid 5

Todd, William B. Firma Tauchnitz: A further investigation 2

Treadwell, Michael London Printers and Printing Houses in
1705 7

Turner, John R. The Camelot Series, Everyman’s Library, and Ernest Rhys 31

Twyman, Michael Two Centuries of Printing: Book production history diagrams 36

Vann, J. Don The Early Success of Pickwick 2

Waquet, Françoise Book Subscriptions in Early Eighteenth-Century Italy 33

Warrilow, Georgina Some Recent German Periodicals on Book and Book-Trade History: A summary
(No. 1) 6; (No. 2) 9; (No. 3) 10

----- Review of Fabian: Register zum Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens. Band I-XX. Frankfurt am Main, Buchhändler-Vereinigung, 1981 12

Warrington, Bernard The Bankruptcy of William Pickering in 1853: The hazards of publishing and bookselling in the first half of the nineteenth century 27

William Pickering and the Development of Publishers’ Binding in the Early Nineteenth Century 33

Weedon, Alexis A Quantitative Survey: George Bell &
Sons 33

Whitehill, Walter Muir The Relation of Learned Societies and University Presses 2

Whiteman, Bruce A Canadian Publishing House: Some notes on the Macmillan Company of Canada Archive at McMaster University Library, Hamilton, Canada 10

----- Review of Parker: The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1985 20

Whitworth, Michael The Clothbound Universe: Popular physics books, 1919-39 40

Wilson, Keith M. Spenser Wilkinson at Bay: Calling the tune at the Morning Post, 1908-1909 19

----- The Yorkshire Post, Conservative Central Office, and the Negotiations for the Purchase of the Morning Post, 1923-24 33

Wiseman, John A. Bible and Tract. Disseminating missionary literature in nineteenth-century Ontario 18

----- Silent Companions: The dissemination of books and periodicals in nineteenth-century Ontario 12

Woodruff, James F. The Background and Significance of the Rambler’s Format 4

Zboray, Ronald J. The Book Peddler and Literary Dissemination. The case of Parson Weems 25

Zink, Steven D. 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 27

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