Light on the Book Trade : Essays in Honour of Peter Isaac

British Library, London, first edition, 2004. Laminated boards, 8vo,. xvi, 224 pp. Papers from the Conference on the History of the British Book Trade (19th : 2001 : Worcester, England) Indexed. Contents: Peter Isaac: a Landmark Removed; Introduction; The History of the English Provincial Book Trade: a research agenda; 'For no text is an island, divided from the main' : Incunable Sammelbande; Freeman and Susannah Collins and the Spread of English Provincial Printing; Taking Stock: The Diary of Edmund Harrold of Manchester; Books in Eighteenth-Century Whitehaven; From George III to Queen Victoria: a provincial family and their books; Print, Privilege and Piracy in the Book of Common Prayer; John Gregory and the 'Leicester Journal'; Literary Institutions in the Lake Counties Part IV: Catalogues; Influential and Mysterious: The Career of Septimus Prowett: Bookseller, Publisher and Picture Dealer; Typography in Nineteenth-Century Children's Readers: the Otley Connection; Baker's Juvenile Circulating Library in Sydney in the 1840s; Staying the Course:; the Edinburgh Cabinet Library, 1830-1844; Paths Through the Wilderness: Recording the History of Provincial Newspapers in England; James Everett and the Sale of Adam Clarke's Library, 1833: a newly discovered manuscript; Thomas Gee Senior; False Imprints and the Bridger Specimen Books; Charles Elliot's Book Adventure in Philadelphia, and the Trouble with Thomas Dobson; Bibliography of the Writings of Peter Isaac. As New.