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Book Production and Distribution
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(9) retail bookselling
General works and the Net Book Agreement
The stationers’ price-book: being a catalogue of every article used or
vended in that business. 1800.
Pickering, W. Booksellers’ monopoly: address to the trade and to the
public. 1832.
Paternoster Row and the bookselling trade. Pinnock’s Guide to
Knowledge Aug 1834.
The retail booksellers’ and bookbuyers’ advocate. No 1, Dec 1836; no
2, Jan 1837; no 3, [Feb 1837]. Ed Edward Portwine?
A manual of book-keeping for booksellers, publishers and stationers,
by a bookseller. 1850.
Chapman, J. W. The commerce of literature. Westminster Rev Apr
1852; rptd as Cheap books and how to get them, 1852, 1852 (rev).
A report of the proceedings at a meeting (consisting chiefly of
authors) held 4 May 1852 at the House of Mr John Chapman for
the purpose of hastening the removal of the trade restrictions on
the commerce of literature. 1852.
The opinions of certain authors on the bookselling question. [Ed
John W. Parker & Son] [1852]. Additional letters on the bookselling
question, 1852.
[Bigg, J.] The bookselling system: a letter to Lord Campbell respecting
the late inquiry into the regulations of the booksellers’
Association in reference to the causes which led to its dissolution,
by a retired bookseller. 1852.
The intelligencer for publishers and booksellers. No 1, July 1854–no
7, Jan 1855.
Ridge, L. L. Ridge’s scheme for promoting the interests of the
country booksellers and publishers. Grantham 1868.
[Wyman, C. W. H.] Wyman’s dictionary of stationery and compendium
of useful information for the office, counting house &
library. [1875], 1876, 1881.
Prouting, F. J. The stationer’s guide and practical handbook to the
art of window dressing. 1881.
Growoll, A. The profession of bookselling: a handbook of practical
hints for the apprentice and bookseller. 2 pts New York 1893–5.
Stott, D. The decay of bookselling. Nineteenth Century Dec 1894.
Heinemann, W. Bookselling: the system adopted in Germany for
the prevention of underselling and for promoting the sale of
books. Taunton 1895.
Bowes, R. The friends of literature. In E. Marston, Sketches of some
booksellers of the time of Dr Johnson, 1902.
Bowes, R. Booksellers’ associations, past and present. Taunton
1905.
The successful bookseller: a complete guide to success to all
engaged in a retail bookselling, stationery and fancy goods business.
1906.
Net Books Committee. Net books question. 1908.
Bowes, R. Cambridge bookshops and booksellers 1846–1858.
Cambridge 1912.
Macmillan, Sir F. The Net Book Agreement 1899 and the book war
1906–8. Glasgow 1924.
Gray, G. J. Cambridge bookselling and the oldest book-shop in the
United Kingdom. Cambridge 1925.
Simpson, W. Old Inverness booksellers. Man and memories of
bygone days. Inverness 1931.
Blackwell, B. The nemesis of the Net Book Agreement: an address.
1933.
Corp, W. G. Fifty years: a brief account of the Associated Booksellers
of Great Britain and Ireland 1895–1945. Oxford 1945.
Barnes, J. J. Free trade in books. Oxford 1964.
Plant, M. The English book trade: an economic history of the
making and sale of books. 1965 (2nd edn), 1974 (3rd edn).
Barker, R. E. and G. R. Davies (ed). Books are different. An account of
the defence of the Net Book Agreement. 1966.
Williams, H. Book clubs and printing societies of Great Britain and
Ireland. 1929, rptd Detroit 1971.
Taraporevala, R. J. Competition and its control in the British book
trade 1850–1939. With a foreword and chapter on retail price
competition and the origins of the Net Book Agreement. 1973.
Myers, R. and M. Harris (ed). Development of the English book
trade. Oxford 1981.
Myers, R. Economics of the British book trade 1605–1939. 1985.
Myers, R. and M. Harris (ed). Spreading the word: the distribution
networks of print 1550–1850. Winchester 1990.
Individual firms
Booksellers in alphabetical order
J. Brown & Son. The firm of three generations. Glasgow 1908.
Blackwell, B. H. Blackwell’s 1879–1979, the history of a family firm.
Oxford 1983.
Cowan, S. Humorous episodes in the life of a provincial publisher
extending over 50 years. Birmingham 1912.
Fitzgerald, J. The recollections of a book collector (1848–58).
Liverpool 1903.
MacAndrew, I. F. Memoir of Isaac Forsyth, bookseller in Elgin
1768–1859. 1889.
Humphreys, C. The life of Charles Humphreys, bookseller, told by
himself. [c. 1910.]
H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. Lewis’s 1844–1931: an illustrated account of its
foundation and development. 1931.
Miller, G. Later struggles in the journey of life. 1833.
Couper, W. J. The Millers of Haddington, Dunbar and Dunfermline.
A record of Scottish bookselling. 1914.
The Parkers of Oxford. Oxford 1914.
Simpson, W. Old Inverness booksellers: men and memories of
bygone days. Inverness 1931.
John Smith & Son, Ltd. A short note on a long history 1751–1925.
Glasgow 1925.
Burdekin, R. Memoirs of the life and character of Mr R. Spence of
York, bookseller. York 1827.
[Thin, J.] Reminiscences of booksellers and bookselling in
Edinburgh in the time of William IV. 1905.
Thin, J. A note on the centenary of the firm of J. Thin bookseller
1848–1948. Edinburgh 1948.
West, W. Fifty years’ recollections of an old bookseller. Cork 1835,
1837 (2nd edn).
David Wyllie & Sons. A century of bookselling 1814–1914. Aberdeen
1914. [pb]
(10) the antiquarian book trade
General works
[Dibdin, T. F.] Bibliophobia: remarks on the present languid and
depressed state of literature and the book trade. 1832.
The directory of second-hand booksellers. Ed A. Gyles, Nottingham
1886; rev J. Clegg, Rochdale 1888, 1891, 1894, 1899, 1903 etc. Later
continued by A. J. Philip at Gravesend. Continued as The librarian.
International directory of booksellers, publishers, binders,
papermakers, printers, agents, etc. Ed A. Philip 1927. Continued
as Clegg’s international directory of booksellers, publishers,
binders 1930–1, 1936–7, 1940–1. Continued as Clegg’s international
directory of world book trade 1950.
Wheatley, H. B. Prices of books. 1898.
Block, A. A short history of the principal London antiquarian booksellers
and book auctioneers. 1933.
Lewis, R. H. Antiquarian books: an insider’s account. 1978.
Periodicals
The book exchange: or monthly list of books, odd volumes, mss,
wanted to buy, sell or exchange. No 1, Sep 1863–no 11, July 1864.
The literary mart and book exchange. A monthly journal for pub-