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,
“... Publishing History has something of a Balkan status in this country’s universities. Bibliography, sociology, economic history periodically lay claim to it: none is prepared to grant it the dignity of a subject or area of study in its own right. In the past few years there were signs that publishing history might form itself into something coherent ... ”
