G E Bentley Jr

The Edwardses of Halifax

The Making and Selling of Beautiful Books in London and Halifax, 1749-1826

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Edwardses of Halifax is the definitive account of a family of Britain’s leading bookbinders, publishers, and antiquarian booksellers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442645189
• ISBN-10: 1442645180
• Artikelnr.: 41622177

Autorenporträt

By G.E. Bentley Jr.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Genealogy: Edwards of Halifax
Genealogy: Edwards of Northowram
PART I: WILLIAM EDWARDS, Paterfamilias
PART II: JAMES EDWARDS, the Medicean Bookseller
1. The Medicean Bookshop and James Edwards’s Shop Catalogues 1784–1800
2. Buying on the Continent and Selling at Auction 1786–1799
3. James Edwards as a Publisher 1785–1800
4. The Bookseller as Diplomat: James Edwards, Lord Grenville, and Earl
Spencer in 1800
5. Last Years
PART III: RICHARD EDWARDS, Publisher of Church-and-King Pamphlets and of
William Blake
PART IV: THOMAS EDWARDS, An Important Provincial Bookseller