History of the Book in the West: 1800–1914

Stephen Colclough is Lecturer at Bangor University, UK and Alexis Weedon is Professor and Director of the Research Institute for Media Art and Design, University of Bedfordshire, UK

• Contents: Introduction; Part I National Publishing Structures: The rise of a national book trade system in the United States, 1865-1916, Michael Winship; The publishing industry and printed output in 19th-century France, Frédéric Barbier; The literature of the Lubok, Jeffrey Brooks; La presse est libre...1815-1880, Anthony Smith. Part II International Trade: International copyright: 4 interconnected histories, Catherine Seville; The Chace Act and Anglo-American literary relations, James L.W. West III; Evolutionism, internationalism and commercial enterprise in science: the international scientific series 1871-1910, Roy M. MacLeod; Depression and innovation in the British and American book trade 1819-1939, James J. Barnes. Part III Publishing Practices: Two centuries of printing: book production history diagrams, Michael Twyman; The annual pattern of publication 1800-1919, Simon Eliot; Printing, Allan C. Dooley; The professional author, Robert L. Patten; John Murray's family library and the cheapening of books in the early 19th-century Britain, Scott Bennett; The printing, proof-reading and publishing of Thackeray's Vanity Fair: the 1st edition, Peter L. Shillingsburg. Part IV Distribution: Marketing speculation, James A. Secord; The press and the book trade, Jack Simmons; Book distribution and American culture: a 150-year perspective, Ronald J. Zboray. Part V Reading: The pursuit of books, David Vincent; 'An association of kindred spirits': black readers and their reading rooms, Elizabeth McHenry; Women, men and the reading of Vanity Fair, Kate Flint; Crusoe's books: the Scottish emigrant reader in the 19th century, Bill Bell; Name Index.

'...a scholar desiring an introduction to and representative samples of nineteenth-century book history (especially British) will find a good starting point here.' Victorian Studies