CRAFT AND CAPITAL IN THE BOOK TRADE (Hardcover)

Part One: A Skilled Workforce: Training and Collaboration in the Book Trades from the Sixteenth Century 1. Apprenticeship and the Stationers’ Company (Robin Myers) 2. The Training of bookbinders in the 17th and 18th centuries (M. M. Foot) 3. How did they learn? The Training of British Engravers 1714-1830 (David Alexander) 4. The Most Despicable Drudge in the Universe’? Ambition, Assistance and Experience in the papers of John Nichols and his family, 1765-1830 (Julian Pooley) 5. The early types of the Didots, 1781?89: emulation, competition and collaboration as factors of typographic progress (Sebastien Morlighem) 6. Hand-in-hand: The Original Society of Paper Makers, labour and customs of a craft industry in the nineteenth century (Maureen Green) 7. The Alden Press, 1832-2008 (William Alden) Part Two: Balancing the Books: Financing the Book Trade since the Fifteenth Century 7. The price of books in Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries (Angela Nuovo) 8. The economics of cheap print during the English revolution, 1640-1660 (Jason Peacey) 9. ‘The pleasant art of money catching’; the expansion of the trade in cheap books around 1700 (Michael Harris) 10. Jobbing; was it the financial mainstay of the printing house? (James Raven) 11. Business Plan: the case of James Rivington (Christine Ferdinand) 12. Oscar Wilde: Money, morality and the Book Trade (Mark Turner and David Stokes)