54056X1 The first volume in the series, PRINT NETWORKS. St. Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester / Oak Knoll Press, New Castle: 1997. 208 pages. Hardcover, no dustjacket (as issued. Brand new book. This work comes from the 14th annual Seminar on the History of the Provincial Book Trade, which brings together practitioners from different backgrounds all over Britain. Over the past thirty years, the study of provincial book trade has been transformed due to growing academic and popular interest in the social history of Britain outside London. It has also become a scholarly discipline, one notable for the enthusiasm of its practitioners - academics, librarians, printers and interested members of the public. The papers within Images & Texts demonstrate the breadth of the field and yet, also its unity. Newspapers and book clubs, chapbooks and printing technology are all common elements of the provincial book trade throughout Britain. These essays touch on several aspects of print distribution and readership, as well as the distribution of images which are often as important as the texts they illustrate. The vast outpouring of books, chapbooks, street literature, newspapers and ephemeral jobbing work points to a far greater degree of literacy, at all levels of society, than is often held to be the case. Here, the subjects covered include Diana Dixon on Northamptonshire newspapers, 1720-1900; Martin Holmes on Samuel Coleridge, bookseller in Worcester ca. 1755-1777; John Gavin on Cumbrian literary institutions; Barry McKay on three Cumbrian chapbook printers; John Morris on Scottish ballads and chapbooks; Brenda Scragg on sources for Manchester printing in the nineteenth century; Philip Henry Jones on Welsh-language publishing in the nineteenth century; Iain Beavan on the Aberdeen University Press and the Scottish Typographical Association; and finally, Peter Lord on Welsh images and images of Wales in the popular press. $42.50USD
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