Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 3: Ambition and Industry 1800–1880

Bill Bell is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Cardiff. He has published widely on nineteenth-century literature and culture and has been a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, the University of Ottawa, and St John’s College, Oxford.

• Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; I. PRODUCTION; Chapter One The Elements of the Trade; Papermaking - John Morris; Typefounding - John Morris; Printing - Trevor Howard-Hill; Illustration - John Scally; Binding - John Morris; II. PUBLISHING, DISTRIBUTION AND READING;; Chapter Two Publishing; Publishing 1800-1830 - Peter Garside; 1825-26: Years of Crisis? - Simon Eliot; Publishing 1830-1880 - David Finkelstein; Gaelic Printing and Publishing - Donald E. Meek; Chapter Three Distribution and Reading; Bookselling - Iain Beavan; The Railways - Stephen Colclough; Gaelic Communities and the Use of Texts - Donald E. Meek; Reading - Jonathan Rose; Libraries - John Crawford; III. MARKETS AND GENRES; Chapter Four Literature in the Marketplace; The Rise of the Scottish Literary Market - Peter Garside; Authorship: Six Case Studies; Walter Scott and the Management of Copyright - Jane Millgate; Waverley and the Scottish Fiction Revolution - Peter Garside; John MacLean, the Gaelic Bard - Donald E. Meek and Rob Dunbar; Thomas Carlyle and the Lure of London - Ian Campbell; Margaret Oliphant and the Profession of Writing Zsuzanna Varga; Robert Louis Stevenson and the Pursuit of Fame - Jenni Calder; The Making of a Scottish Literary Canon - Cairns Craig; Chapter Five The Diversity of Print; Antiquarianism - Padmini Ray Murray; Religion - Padmini Ray Murray; Science - Aileen Fyfe; Reference - Padmini Ray Murray; Maps - Diana Webster; Education - Padmini Ray Murray; Printing for Everyday Life - Gen Harrison; Chapter Six Periodicals and Newspapers; The Age of the Periodical - Bill Bell; Reviews and Monthlies - Joanne Shattock; The Popular 'Weekly' - Laurel Brake; The Newspaper - Padmini Ray Murray; IV. BEYOND SCOTLAND; Chapter Seven Greater Britain and Ireland; Agencies and Joint Ventures - Ross Alloway; The London Scots - Robin Myers; Wales - Philip Henry Jones; Ireland - Charles Benson; Chapter Eight Bookseller to the World; Continental Europe - Sharon Brown and Barbara Schaff; North America - Fiona Black; India - Graham Shaw; The Pacific - Wallace Kirsop; Appendix A Personnel in the Print and Allied Trades; Appendix B Statistical Evidence for the 1825-26 Crisis; CONTRIBUTORS; SOURCES CITED; INDEX.

The book is nicely produced, approachably written, and fairly priced by today's standards. Together with its companion volumes once the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland is complete it will surely become a standard and extensively consulted work of reference.