John Sutherland writes about the history of publishing
John Sutherland, 17 February 1983
From Author to Reader: A Social Study of Books
by Peter Mann.
Routledge, 189 pp., £8.95, October 1982,0 7100 9089 7 Show More
by Peter Mann.
Routledge, 189 pp., £8.95, October 1982,
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens, edited by Nina Burgis.
Oxford, 781 pp., £40, March 1981,0 19 812492 9 Show More
by Charles Dickens, edited by Nina Burgis.
Oxford, 781 pp., £40, March 1981,
Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens, edited by Margaret Cardwell.
Oxford, 923 pp., £45, December 1982,0 19 812488 0 Show More
by Charles Dickens, edited by Margaret Cardwell.
Oxford, 923 pp., £45, December 1982,
Books and their Readers in 18th-Century England
edited by Isabel Rivers.
Leicester University Press, 267 pp., £15, July 1982,0 7185 1189 1 Show More
edited by Isabel Rivers.
Leicester University Press, 267 pp., £15, July 1982,
Mumby’s Publishing and Bookselling in the 20th Century
by Ian Norrie.
Bell and Hyman, 253 pp., £12.95, October 1982,0 7135 1341 1 Show More
by Ian Norrie.
Bell and Hyman, 253 pp., £12.95, October 1982,
Reading Relations
by Bernard Sharratt.
Harvester, 350 pp., £18.95, February 1982,0 7108 0059 2 Show More
by Bernard Sharratt.
Harvester, 350 pp., £18.95, February 1982,
“... derives from the Leicester-orientated journal Prose (i.e. non-fiction prose), whose first editor, Ian Hilson, killed in a car accident, is here commemorated. The body of the collection aims to specify the mosaic of specialist reading publics and reading vogues which co-existed and competed within the total area of 18th-century taste and book culture. The ... ”
