by James Raven (Author)

Publishing Business assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England in the long eighteenth century. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade in the age of Enlightenment.