Printing in London

From 1476 to Modern Times

P. M. Handover

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040431672
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Information Management
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Originally published in 1960, the early history of news-gathering, of advertisement blocks and displayed advertising, of women's magazine, are among the varied aspects of the London printing trade discussed in this book. Separate chapters are devoted to jobbing printing and the controversial, competitive Bible patent. The considerable technical information includes detailed descriptions of nineteenth-century presses.

Besides an account of the struggle for power in the Stationers' Company at certain periods, the livelier – and often more ruthless – personalities in the London trade, such as John Wolfe, Robert Barker I, Miles Flesher, Henry Hills and John Bell are vigorously described.

Every section is generously illustrated in line and half-tone with material much of which was previously unreproduced.

The easy style and wide range of Printing in London will rouse the interest of both the specialist – in advertising, in libraries and in the trade itself – and of the general reader who wants to know more about the history of printing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Frontmatter
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Author’s Note
• Table of Contents
• I The Book Trade in the Sixteenth Century
• II The Book Trade in the Seventeenth Century
• III The Bible Patent
• IV The Periodical Press: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
• V The Periodical Press in the Eighteenth Century
• VI The Periodical Press from the Eighteenth Century to Modern Times
• VII Jobbing
• VIII The Decline of Book Printing in London
• Index