William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860
by
Aileen Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel—Gutenberg’s printing press had been around for nearly...