BIBLIOGRAPHY

Myers, Robin. The British Book Trade From Caxton to the Present Day. London: André Deutsch, 1973, 405 p.

Provides a bibliographical guide to issues of authorship, bookbinding, printing, publishing, and bookselling.

CRITICISM

Barnes, James J. Free Trade in Books: A Study of the London Book Trade Since 1800. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964, 198 p.

Discusses various booksellers' committees and associations, the relationship of publishers and authors, and the introduction of inexpensive literature.

Baym, Nina. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers: Responses to Fiction in Antebellum America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984, 287 p.

Examines the distribution and reception of American novels, primarily concentrating on the years 1840-1860.

Briggs, Asa, ed. Essays in the History of Publishing in Celebration of the 250^th Anniversary of the House of Longman 1724-1974. London: Longman, 1974, 468 p.

Provides a collection of essays on the history of publishing in general and on the House of Longman in particular.

Collins, A. S. The Profession of Letters: A Study of the Relation of Author to Patron, Publisher, and Public, 1780-1832. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1929, 279 p.

Traces the development of literature production as a profession and as a trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Davidson, Cathy N. Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, 307 p.

Discusses the history of book production and consumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Denning, Michael. Mechanic Accents: Dime Novels and Working-Class Culture in America. London: Verso, 1987, 259 p.

Considers the role of the dime novel in American culture, including an analysis of the way labor relations were rendered in dime novels.

Lund, Michael. America's Continuing Story: An Introduction to Serial Fiction, 1850-1900. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1993, 228 p.

Provides an overview of American fiction originally appearing in periodicals during the last half of the nineteenth century, including information on authors' intentions vs. audiences' reception and the relationship between serial fiction and the emergence of the short story.

McDonald, Peter D. British Literary Culture and Publishing Practice 1880-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 230 p.

Assesses the conditions in the literary marketplace of the 1890s in England.

Nowell-Smith, Simon. International Copyright Law and the Publisher in the Reign of Queen Victoria. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968, 109 p.

Provides a collection of Oxford lectures on the effect of copyright law on the British publishing industry during the years 1837-1901.

Plant, Marjorie. The English Book Trade: An Economic History of the Making and Sale of Books. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1939, 500 p.

Provides an important early overview of the major events and innovations in the British publishing industry.

Price, Kenneth M. and Susan Belasco Smith, eds. Periodical Literature in Nineteenth-Century America. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, 292 p.

Examines the social and historical conditions surrounding periodical publication between 1830 and 1890, a period that saw the blending of high culture and low culture, and the interests of art and commerce.

Small, Ian. “The Economies of Taste: Literary Markets and Literary Value in the Late Nineteenth Century.” English Literature in Transition 39, no. 1 (1996): 7-18.

Discusses recent trends in scholarship exploring the relationship between “market value” and “literary value.”

Todd, Emily B. “Walter Scott and the Nineteenth-Century American Literary Marketplace: Antebellum Richmond Readers and the Collected Editions of the Waverley Novels.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 93, no. 4 (December 1999): 495-517.

Considers the transatlantic book trade in the nineteenth century through an examination of Scott's Waverley novels—which were enormously popular with American readers.

Wilson, R. Jackson. Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace, from Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989, 295 p.

Examines five major American writers: Franklin, Irving, Garrison, Emerson, and Dickinson, and their relationships with publishers and the reading public.

Winship, Michael. American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 244 p.

Provides a case study of a major nineteenth-century Boston publishing company and its influence on the literary marketplace.