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Book Production and Distribution<br />

87 | 88<br />

(9) retail bookselling<br />

General works and the Net Book Agreement<br />

<strong>The</strong> stationers’ price-book: being a catalogue <strong>of</strong> every article used or<br />

vended in that business. 1800.<br />

Pickering, W. Booksellers’ monopoly: address to the trade and to the<br />

public. 1832.<br />

Paternoster Row and the bookselling trade. Pinnock’s Guide to<br />

Knowledge Aug 1834.<br />

<strong>The</strong> retail booksellers’ and bookbuyers’ advocate. No 1, Dec 1836; no<br />

2, Jan 1837; no 3, [Feb 1837]. Ed Edward Portwine?<br />

A manual <strong>of</strong> book-keeping for booksellers, publishers and stationers,<br />

by a bookseller. 1850.<br />

Chapman, J. W. <strong>The</strong> commerce <strong>of</strong> literature. Westminster Rev Apr<br />

1852; rptd as Cheap books and how to get them, 1852, 1852 (rev).<br />

A report <strong>of</strong> the proceedings at a meeting (consisting chiefly <strong>of</strong><br />

authors) held 4 May 1852 at the House <strong>of</strong> Mr John Chapman for<br />

the purpose <strong>of</strong> hastening the removal <strong>of</strong> the trade restrictions on<br />

the commerce <strong>of</strong> literature. 1852.<br />

<strong>The</strong> opinions <strong>of</strong> certain authors on the bookselling question. [Ed<br />

John W. Parker & Son] [1852]. Additional letters on the bookselling<br />

question, 1852.<br />

[Bigg, J.] <strong>The</strong> bookselling system: a letter to Lord Campbell respecting<br />

the late inquiry into the regulations <strong>of</strong> the booksellers’<br />

Association in reference to the causes which led to its dissolution,<br />

by a retired bookseller. 1852.<br />

<strong>The</strong> intelligencer for publishers and booksellers. No 1, July 1854–no<br />

7, Jan 1855.<br />

Ridge, L. L. Ridge’s scheme for promoting the interests <strong>of</strong> the<br />

country booksellers and publishers. Grantham 1868.<br />

[Wyman, C. W. H.] Wyman’s dictionary <strong>of</strong> stationery and compendium<br />

<strong>of</strong> useful information for the <strong>of</strong>fice, counting house &<br />

library. [1875], 1876, 1881.<br />

Prouting, F. J. <strong>The</strong> stationer’s guide and practical handbook to the<br />

art <strong>of</strong> window dressing. 1881.<br />

Growoll, A. <strong>The</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> bookselling: a handbook <strong>of</strong> practical<br />

hints for the apprentice and bookseller. 2 pts New York 1893–5.<br />

Stott, D. <strong>The</strong> decay <strong>of</strong> bookselling. Nineteenth Century Dec 1894.<br />

Heinemann, W. Bookselling: the system adopted in Germany for<br />

the prevention <strong>of</strong> underselling and for promoting the sale <strong>of</strong><br />

books. Taunton 1895.<br />

Bowes, R. <strong>The</strong> friends <strong>of</strong> literature. In E. Marston, Sketches <strong>of</strong> some<br />

booksellers <strong>of</strong> the time <strong>of</strong> Dr Johnson, 1902.<br />

Bowes, R. Booksellers’ associations, past and present. Taunton<br />

1905.<br />

<strong>The</strong> successful bookseller: a complete guide to success to all<br />

engaged in a retail bookselling, stationery and fancy goods business.<br />

1906.<br />

Net Books Committee. Net books question. 1908.<br />

Bowes, R. <strong>Cambridge</strong> bookshops and booksellers 1846–1858.<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> 1912.<br />

Macmillan, Sir F. <strong>The</strong> Net Book Agreement 1899 and the book war<br />

1906–8. Glasgow 1924.<br />

Gray, G. J. <strong>Cambridge</strong> bookselling and the oldest book-shop in the<br />

United Kingdom. <strong>Cambridge</strong> 1925.<br />

Simpson, W. Old Inverness booksellers. Man and memories <strong>of</strong><br />

bygone days. Inverness 1931.<br />

Blackwell, B. <strong>The</strong> nemesis <strong>of</strong> the Net Book Agreement: an address.<br />

1933.<br />

Corp, W. G. Fifty years: a brief account <strong>of</strong> the Associated Booksellers<br />

<strong>of</strong> Great Britain and Ireland 1895–1945. Oxford 1945.<br />

Barnes, J. J. Free trade in books. Oxford 1964.<br />

Plant, M. <strong>The</strong> <strong>English</strong> book trade: an economic history <strong>of</strong> the<br />

making and sale <strong>of</strong> books. 1965 (2nd edn), 1974 (3rd edn).<br />

Barker, R. E. and G. R. Davies (ed). Books are different. An account <strong>of</strong><br />

the defence <strong>of</strong> the Net Book Agreement. 1966.<br />

Williams, H. Book clubs and printing societies <strong>of</strong> Great Britain and<br />

Ireland. 1929, rptd Detroit 1971.<br />

Taraporevala, R. J. Competition and its control in the British book<br />

trade 1850–1939. With a foreword and chapter on retail price<br />

competition and the origins <strong>of</strong> the Net Book Agreement. 1973.<br />

Myers, R. and M. Harris (ed). Development <strong>of</strong> the <strong>English</strong> book<br />

trade. Oxford 1981.<br />

Myers, R. Economics <strong>of</strong> the British book trade 1605–1939. 1985.<br />

Myers, R. and M. Harris (ed). Spreading the word: the distribution<br />

networks <strong>of</strong> print 1550–1850. Winchester 1990.<br />

Individual firms<br />

Booksellers in alphabetical order<br />

J. Brown & Son. <strong>The</strong> firm <strong>of</strong> three generations. Glasgow 1908.<br />

Blackwell, B. H. Blackwell’s 1879–1979, the history <strong>of</strong> a family firm.<br />

Oxford 1983.<br />

Cowan, S. Humorous episodes in the life <strong>of</strong> a provincial publisher<br />

extending over 50 years. Birmingham 1912.<br />

Fitzgerald, J. <strong>The</strong> recollections <strong>of</strong> a book collector (1848–58).<br />

Liverpool 1903.<br />

MacAndrew, I. F. Memoir <strong>of</strong> Isaac Forsyth, bookseller in Elgin<br />

1768–1859. 1889.<br />

Humphreys, C. <strong>The</strong> life <strong>of</strong> Charles Humphreys, bookseller, told by<br />

himself. [c. 1910.]<br />

H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. Lewis’s 1844–1931: an illustrated account <strong>of</strong> its<br />

foundation and development. 1931.<br />

Miller, G. Later struggles in the journey <strong>of</strong> life. 1833.<br />

Couper, W. J. <strong>The</strong> Millers <strong>of</strong> Haddington, Dunbar and Dunfermline.<br />

A record <strong>of</strong> Scottish bookselling. 1914.<br />

<strong>The</strong> Parkers <strong>of</strong> Oxford. Oxford 1914.<br />

Simpson, W. Old Inverness booksellers: men and memories <strong>of</strong><br />

bygone days. Inverness 1931.<br />

John Smith & Son, Ltd. A short note on a long history 1751–1925.<br />

Glasgow 1925.<br />

Burdekin, R. Memoirs <strong>of</strong> the life and character <strong>of</strong> Mr R. Spence <strong>of</strong><br />

York, bookseller. York 1827.<br />

[Thin, J.] Reminiscences <strong>of</strong> booksellers and bookselling in<br />

Edinburgh in the time <strong>of</strong> William IV. 1905.<br />

Thin, J. A note on the centenary <strong>of</strong> the firm <strong>of</strong> J. Thin bookseller<br />

1848–1948. Edinburgh 1948.<br />

West, W. Fifty years’ recollections <strong>of</strong> an old bookseller. Cork 1835,<br />

1837 (2nd edn).<br />

David Wyllie & Sons. A century <strong>of</strong> bookselling 1814–1914. Aberdeen<br />

1914. [pb]<br />

(10) the antiquarian book trade<br />

General works<br />

[Dibdin, T. F.] Bibliophobia: remarks on the present languid and<br />

depressed state <strong>of</strong> literature and the book trade. 1832.<br />

<strong>The</strong> directory <strong>of</strong> second-hand booksellers. Ed A. Gyles, Nottingham<br />

1886; rev J. Clegg, Rochdale 1888, 1891, 1894, 1899, 1903 etc. Later<br />

continued by A. J. Philip at Gravesend. Continued as <strong>The</strong> librarian.<br />

International directory <strong>of</strong> booksellers, publishers, binders,<br />

papermakers, printers, agents, etc. Ed A. Philip 1927. Continued<br />

as Clegg’s international directory <strong>of</strong> booksellers, publishers,<br />

binders 1930–1, 1936–7, 1940–1. Continued as Clegg’s international<br />

directory <strong>of</strong> world book trade 1950.<br />

Wheatley, H. B. Prices <strong>of</strong> books. 1898.<br />

Block, A. A short history <strong>of</strong> the principal London antiquarian booksellers<br />

and book auctioneers. 1933.<br />

Lewis, R. H. Antiquarian books: an insider’s account. 1978.<br />

Periodicals<br />

<strong>The</strong> book exchange: or monthly list <strong>of</strong> books, odd volumes, mss,<br />

wanted to buy, sell or exchange. No 1, Sep 1863–no 11, July 1864.<br />

<strong>The</strong> literary mart and book exchange. A monthly journal for pub-

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