Publishers & Publishing Industry

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925841466Author Patty JansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Capricornica PublicationsPublisher Capricornica PublicationsWeight(grams) 177g

First published in 1881, this popular and entertaining work by the printer and bibliographer William Blades (1824-90) examines the numerous threats that books have faced throughout their existence. Based on the author's experience of collecting printed...

An erudite and popular librarian, Charles Edward Sayle (1864-1924) devoted his career to cataloguing and editing rare books in the University of Cambridge. His obituary praised him as 'a fine example of the type of man who likes to catalogue things in...

Born in 1802 in Elgin, James Grant first established himself as a reporter and then as a leading newspaper editor in Victorian London, heading the Morning Chronicle for two decades before moving on to the Christian Standard. His 1839 Travels in Town was...

When this work was published, its original author had been dead for fifty years. As the title page explains, the work of Joseph Ames (1687-1759) was considerably augmented by William Herbert (1718-95), and then 'greatly enlarged, with copious notes, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781882122Author Sandro JungFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

A prolific author and bibliographer, Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) wrote or edited dozens of works during a distinguished literary career. First published in 1898 as the fourth volume in Richard Garnett's 'Library Series', Prices of Books traces...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646796137Author Stanley UnwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 41g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913349738Author Orna RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Font PublicationsPublisher Font PublicationsWeight(grams) 91g

This two-volume account of the life and friendships of the publisher John Murray (1778-1843), told largely through his voluminous correspondence, was published in 1891 by Samuel Smiles (1812-1904), whose Lives of the Engineers, Self-Help, and other works...

Margaret Oliphant (1828-1897) is best known as the author of nearly one hundred novels, but also wrote short stories and biographies. Closely connected with Blackwoods of Edinburgh from 1851, shortly before her death she was commissioned to write a...

Published to mark the four hundredth anniversary of the first book to be printed in Cambridge by John Siberch in 1521, this book traces the development of the Press over four centuries. S.C. Roberts, who became Secretary to the Press Syndicate in 1922,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925261042Author Phillip EdmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint University of Adelaide PressPublisher University of Adelaide PressWeight(grams) 178g

Charles Knight (1791-1873), the son of a Windsor bookseller, was apprenticed to his father at fourteen. He read widely and systematically, and began to buy, collect and sell rare books. He also worked as a journalist, and, on moving to London, set up as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959681182Author Ann AubitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Kirk House PublishersPublisher Kirk House PublishersWeight(grams) 308g

This book is about the nature of publishing: its processes, history and technologies. It also explores the relationship of technology to pedagogy and how publishing has been a part of reading and writing instruction throughout the 20th century. Today...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781880407158Author Sheila BuffFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Editorial Freelancers Association PublicationsPublisher Editorial Freelancers Association...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947655560Author David Mark BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Fiction Vortex, Inc.Publisher Fiction Vortex, Inc.Weight(grams) 213g

Born in London, Abraham Raimbach (1776-1843) was one of the most celebrated engravers of his time. Published in 1843, these memoirs recount his career and give expanded first-hand observations on contemporary artists and public figures. Included is an...

Lawyer, book collector and friend of Sir Walter Scott, James Maidment (1793-1879) displayed a talent for antiquarian research. Many of his works were printed privately in small quantities, such as the present publication, which first appeared in 1837...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914081187Author WhiteleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Cgd PublishingPublisher Cgd PublishingWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957118321Author Chelle HonikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Indie Author MagazinePublisher Indie Author MagazineWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401758529Author Folke DahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461598633Author Igor AleksanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 105Imprint Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Publisher Springer-Verlag New York Inc.Weight(grams)...

Little is known about William Clarke, the author of this 1819 survey of libraries in Britain, though hints in the opening pages suggest that he was acquainted with the activities of the Roxburghe Club. His object is 'to assist ... the collector in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925841473Author Patty JansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Capricornica PublicationsPublisher Capricornica PublicationsWeight(grams)...

In May 1970 the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the Netherlands was celebrated in the King's Library of the British Museum with an ex hibition of Dutch clandestine printing. The books shown were part of the considerable collection assembled in the...

First published in 1901, this is a rich repository of typefaces (including English, Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, Hebrew and Cyrillic), ornaments, borders and various decorative devices used in books printed at the University Press, Cambridge, until...

Review Office automation and associated hardware and software technologies are producing significant changes in traditional typing, printing, and publishing techniques and strategies. The long term impact of current developments is likely to be even more...

Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) was a bibliographer and editor with a prodigious output of books and articles to his name. Brought up after the death of both his parents by his brother Benjamin Robert, himself a skilled bibliographer and cataloguer,...

Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917) was a prolific writer on bibliography, literature and the arts. As founder of the Index Society, and editor of The Bibliographer, he was also involved in the foundation of the Library Association. In that context he...

William James Linton (1812-1897) was a wood-engraver, poet, prose writer and political activist, who first worked in London but emigrated to the United States in 1866. He began his wood-engraving apprenticeship at the age of sixteen under the well-known...

This two-volume work, originally published in 1705 and now reissued in John Nichols' edition of 1818, was one of the earliest examples of autobiographical writing in English. John Dunton (1659-1732), a highly eccentric bookseller and publisher, was also...

This two-volume work on the life and activities of the printer William Caxton, a vital source for bibliographers, was written by another printer, William Blades, and published in 1861-3. Blades (1824-90), apprenticed into the family firm, developed a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957118338Author Chelle HonikerFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Indie Author MagazinePublisher Indie Author MagazineWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639250134Author Dale L RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint One Jacked Monkey, LLCPublisher One Jacked Monkey, LLCWeight(grams) 163g

This twenty-eighth volume of ABHB (Annual bibliography of the history of the printed book and libraries) contains 5045 records, selected from some 1000 periodicals, the list of which follows this introduction. They have been compiled by the National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913674205Author Daniella BlechnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Conscious DreamsPublisher Conscious DreamsWeight(grams) 210g

This autobiography recalls the eventful career of the nineteenth-century publisher and journalist, Henry Vizetelly (1820-1894). Born in London, Vizetelly was apprenticed to a wood engraver as a young child. He entered the printing business and helped...

The aim of this book and the rationale behind writing it are twofold, and are born of experience in working in the field with geologists, builders, land scapers, and people in the construction and building trades in general. This author, in his capacity...