Volume 4: Publishers, Markets, ReadersVolume 4 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1. THE PRICE OF BOOKS Charles Knight, The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: John Murray, 1854), pp. 238-58. ⁰́₈Literature for the People⁰́₉, Times (9 Feb 1854), p. 10.⁰́₈Cheap Books and their...

Volume 3: Authors, Publishers and Copyright LawVolume 3 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1. AUTHORS, PUBLISHERS AND AGENTS⁰́₈Books, Booksellers and Bookmakers⁰́₉, London Magazine, Vol. 10 (February 1828), pp. 254-60.⁰́₈Authors and Publishers⁰́₉, The New Quarterly Review and...

Volume 2: Publishing and Technologies of ProductionVolume 2 Introduction BibliographyPart 1. TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSESJ. Y. W. MacAlister, ⁰́₈The Durability of Modern Papers⁰́₉, The Library, 1, 10, 1 (1898), pp. 295-304.⁰́₈A Commercial History of a Penny Magazine⁰́₉ (1833)...

Volume 1: The Structure of the IndustryGeneral IntroductionVolume 1 IntroductionBibliographyPart 1 ⁰́₃ THE OPERATION OF THE TRADE IN EARLY AND MID CENTURY ⁰́₈Regulations Governing the Issue of Trade Books⁰́₉ (1828), in Joseph Shaylor, The Fascination of Books (London: Simpkin...

1. It all started with Adam -- 2. The French connection : Laissez Faire Avance! -- 3. The irreverent Malthus challenges the new model of prosperity -- 4. Tricky Ricardo takes economics down a dangerous road -- 5. Milling around : John Stuart Mill and the socialists search for utopia -- 6. Marx...

1. The measure of poverty -- 2. The effects of machinery on the condition of the working-classes -- 3. The influx of population into large towns -- 4. "The sweating system" -- 5. The causes of sweating -- 6. Remedies for sweating -- 7. Over-supply of low-skilled labour -- 8. The industrial...

ch. 1. The pioneers -- ch. 2. The goldsmith bankers and the evolution of English paper money -- ch. 3. The goldsmith bankers and their transactions with the Exchequer -- ch. 4. Tudor and Stuart banking schemes -- ch. 5. The foundation of the Bank of England -- ch. 6. The early transactions of...