FAIRS, MARKETS & THE ITINERANT BOOK TRADE

by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, Giles Mandelbrote

A$70 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. xvi+224 last blank , text illustrations, index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust wrapper; Oak Knoll Press/British Library, New Castle, 2007. First edition. Publishing Pathways series. *From the Frankfurt book fairs in the sixteenth century to the Farringdon Road barrows in the twentieth, fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books. Travelling pedlars, hawkers and chapmen have also acted as intermediaries in distributing printed material

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