Table of Contents

Simon Eliot: General Introduction
Part One: The Press
1: Mark Curthoys: The Press and the University
2: Simon Eliot: The Evolution of a Printer and Publisher 1780-1896
3: Simon Eliot: Machines, Materials, and Money
4: Robert Banham: The Work Force
5: Maureen Green: The Look of the Books
6: Mary Hammond: The London Connection
7: John Feather: Authors and Publishers
Part Two: Its Books
8: Amy Flanders with Stephen Colclough: The Bible Press
9: Michael Ledger-Lomas: Theology, Divinity, Sermons
10: Christopher Stray: Classics
11: Christopher Stray: Educational Publishing
12: Jonathan Topham: Science, Mathematics, and Medicine
13: Simon Eliot and Christopher Stray: History, Law, and Literature
14: Elizabeth Knowles: Dictionaries and Other Works of Reference
Part Three: Its Markets
15: Simon Eliot: The Press and the Book Trade
16: Stephen Colclough: Press Books in the UK
17: Robert Fraser: Press Books abroad
Simon Eliot: Conclusion
Appendices

About the Author

Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book in the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. He directs the MA in the History of the Book, and the London Rare Books School. He is a visiting professor of book history at the Open University, where he set up the Reading Experience Database (RED), and at the University of Reading. He has published on quantitative book history, publishing history, the history of reading, the
history of lighting, and library history. He has co-edited The Blackwell Companion to the History of the Book and Literary Cultures and the Material Book. He is General Editor of the new multi-volume
History of Oxford University Press.