Books in the Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History series

Robert Dodsley was London's leading literary publisher of the mid eighteenth century. Numbering about four hundred pieces, the correspondence reflects the publisher's relations with such people as Edmund Burke, the 4th Earl of Chesterfield, David Garrick, Thomas Gray, David Hume, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, and Horace Walpole.

It was not until the eighteenth century that books became widely available throughout the whole of England. Publishing remained largely London-based, but the provincial market grew steadily in importance. In this study, drawing on a wide range of primary sources, John Feather traces the economic, social and cultural forces which made possible this fundamental change.

Central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain are addressed through study of the records of one of the pre-eminent publishers of the time. Michael Winship examines the unusually rich archives of Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, and explores its implications for literary and cultural history.

The emergence of print gave new importance to editors, who determined the form and context in which texts would be read. Brian Richardson examines the Renaissance production and reception of works by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and others, and explores the impact of new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture.

This book examines the radical transformation of British literary culture during the period 1880-1914 as seen through the early publishing careers of Joseph Conrad, Arnold Bennett and Arthur Conan Doyle, and demonstrates the importance of social history and publishing to questions of critical interpretation.

This is the first full-length study of the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing writers such as Henry James, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain. Charles Johanningsmeier shows how the economic practicalities of the syndicate system governed the consumption and interpretation of various literary texts.

The cheap Bibles of nineteenth-century Britain were potent symbols of national virtue. This book, based on correspondence and other archival records, tells the story of the British and Foreign Bible Society from two perspectives: its place in the history of publishing and printing and in contemporary society.

This volume contains almost all the letters that Charles Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) wrote to his publisher during a professional relationship that spanned the last thirty-five years of the Victorian era.

These essays comprehensively and systematically examine British book production and publishing in the hundred years before the introduction of printing.

Details the development of the privilege system, a precursor to copyright, in early sixteenth-century French publishing.

Allen Reddick's acclaimed study of the conception, composition, writing and subsequent revision of the first great English dictionary, using newly discovered manuscript materials. This second edition incorporates new commentary and scholarship.