Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford Historical Monographs) [Hardcover]

Christine Ferdinand (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 12, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0198206526 | ISBN-13: 978-0198206521

This pioneering study of the provincial book and newspaper trade is based on the first thoroughgoing study of a regional paper and its competitors. Using new archival material and the biography of the entrepreneur, Benjamin Collins, Christine Ferdinand reveals the interdependent relationship between the writers and makers of newspapers, the principal members of the London book trade, and the new market for the printed word.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`Christine Ferdinand's study not only presents a reliable synthesis of our present knowledge on the subject but enlarges upon and particularizes that knowledge through a close examination of Benjamin Collins's two primary newspapers ... Ferdinand reconstructs, by a patient and meticulous combing of the pages of the Salisbury Journal, a thorough and credible account of the paper over its fifty-year history under Collins's control ... Ferdinand's study is a valuable contribution to our knowledge of eighteenth-century newspaper history, while it also affords some interesting insights into contemporary provincial life.' James E. Tierney, The Library

`Ferdinand... deftly selects from her primary material to remind readers constantly of individual stories - entertaining, tragic, or moral - and so carries her audience easily through her analyses... this analysis of a successful and efficient business is of importance to anyone wishing to understand eighteenth-century England as a consumer society or how London-country relations worked or the commercial and information structures of the country. It takes us into new realms of newspaper history and its impications.' David McKitterick, Albion

`makes an important contribution to publishing history' Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

C. Y. Ferdinand is a Fellow Librarian at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 12, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198206526
• ISBN-13: 978-0198206521
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,739,352 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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