Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade (Print Networks)

The infinite variety of people and places touched by the British book trade are the focus of this eighth volume in the Print Networks series. These papers - by established book historians and younger scholars - reflect the complex networks that existed between book trade people in the British Isles and the wider colonial world, focusing on the people involved in the creation of the book, from author to agent, publisher to printer, bookseller to reader. The broad chronology covered here allows scholars of book history to observe thematic developments. Topics range from Scotland's earliest printers to late twentieth-century global marketing strategies, also exploring books in and about central America, New Zealand, Australia, Elgin, Northampton, and East Kent among other diverse locations. These essays demonstrate that the connections between book trade practitioners locally and internationally can tell us more about the significance of print by analysing the lives of the men and women who created and lived in these fascinating 'worlds of print'.