Development of the English book trade, 1700-1899 / edited by Robin Myers and Michael Harris.

[Oxford] : Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1981 [1982]

xii, 172 pages : portrait ; 21 cm.

"Papers ... presented at a conference organised by the University of London Department of Extra-Mural Studies"--p. vi

Copy 1 Note: 1982 printing

Includes bibliographic references

John Nichols (1745-1826), chronicler of the book trade / Robin Myers -- The growth of government tolerance of the press to 1790 / Alan Downie -- Periodicals and the book trade / Michael Harris -- The institutionalisation of the British book trade to the 1890s / John Sutherland -- Thomas Hood, a nineteenth-century author and his relations with the book trade to 1835 / Peter Thorogood.