Book production and distribution from the beginning to the American Revolution / by Lawrence C. Wroth. Book production and distribution from the American Revolution to the War between the States / by Lawrence C. Wroth and Rollo G. Silver. Book production and distribution from 1860 to the present...

"This book sets out to show how new markets were cultivated by printers in the period 1476-1550. It argues that while print and manuscript reading continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read, the ways they read and the place of...