This thesis describes the changes in the English book trade in the late 18th century. The life of the second-hand bookseller James Lackington provides a time frame for the thesis. The work takes up the economic terminology and applies it to the publishing process of the literature. The starting point for this is the individual and the effects his entrepreneurship effort can have on the trade. The thesis delves into the four main topics: the circulating libraries, the readership and the analysis of the increasing literacy, the overall picture of the bookselling of the period and finally the bookselling career of James Lackington. The chapter discussing the circulating libraries lists various subcategories of public libraries in general, goes...
The books and papers offered in this submission are concerned with the history of books and the book...
Introduction to MA thesis 'Knowledge profit and knowledge loss in an Enlightened House: the library ...
After the Licensing Act was allowed to expire in 1695, the publishing industry first in London and t...
This thesis describes the changes in the English book trade in the late 18th century. The life of th...
This thesis contributes to the history of reading in the eighteenth century by examining the impact ...
This thesis is the first to provide an overview of the English book ownership of Danish and Dutch co...
This thesis has been written with the intention of investigating a commercial lending library to be ...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
This thesis has been written with the intention to investigate a commercial lending-library in Uddev...
This thesis examines the changing values assigned to books and shows why some items are now consider...
A study of the history of the book trade (printing, bookselling, stationery and publishing) in Leice...
This thesis is an analysis of the fictions which were among the most popular of the eighteenth cent...
The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London’s publishers whol...
This dissertation studies the collection and reuse of scholarly books in early modern Germany. Emplo...
Circulating library catalogs offer one of the most revealing views available of book publishing and ...
The books and papers offered in this submission are concerned with the history of books and the book...
Introduction to MA thesis 'Knowledge profit and knowledge loss in an Enlightened House: the library ...
After the Licensing Act was allowed to expire in 1695, the publishing industry first in London and t...
This thesis describes the changes in the English book trade in the late 18th century. The life of th...
This thesis contributes to the history of reading in the eighteenth century by examining the impact ...
This thesis is the first to provide an overview of the English book ownership of Danish and Dutch co...
This thesis has been written with the intention of investigating a commercial lending library to be ...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
This thesis has been written with the intention to investigate a commercial lending-library in Uddev...
This thesis examines the changing values assigned to books and shows why some items are now consider...
A study of the history of the book trade (printing, bookselling, stationery and publishing) in Leice...
This thesis is an analysis of the fictions which were among the most popular of the eighteenth cent...
The book world of sixteenth-century England was heavily focused on London. London’s publishers whol...
This dissertation studies the collection and reuse of scholarly books in early modern Germany. Emplo...
Circulating library catalogs offer one of the most revealing views available of book publishing and ...
The books and papers offered in this submission are concerned with the history of books and the book...
Introduction to MA thesis 'Knowledge profit and knowledge loss in an Enlightened House: the library ...
After the Licensing Act was allowed to expire in 1695, the publishing industry first in London and t...