Aileen Fyfe: 1 book

Book cover of Steam-Powered Knowledge

Steam-Powered Knowledge

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...
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