Isaac and McKay, The Human Face of the Book Trade, Oak Knoll Press, 1999 in Thornaby, Durham for sale
Contents: Henry Cotton and W H Allnutt: two Pioneer Book-Trade Historians, by Paul Morgan; The Country Book Trades 1784-85, by David Stoker; William Smellie and the Printer's Role in the Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Book Trade, by Stephen W Brown; William Buchan's Domestic Medicine: Laying Book History Open, by Richard B Sher; Medical Secrets and the Book Trade: Ownership of the Copy to the College of Physicians' Pharmacopoeia (1618-50), by Jonathan Sanderson; Charles Elliot and the London Booksellers in the Early Years, by Warren Mcdougall; Charles Elliot and the English Provincial Book Trade, by Peter Isaac; Scotland and the Welsh-Language Book Trade during the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century, by Philip Henry Jones; 'Spreading the Hell-hounds of Jealousy and Discord': the Aberdeen Shaver and its Times, by Iain Beavan; William Ford, by Manchester Bookseller, by Brenda j Scragg; At The Fall Of The Hammer: Auctioning Books in Manchester 1700-1850, by Michael Powell and Terry Wyke; Niche Marketing in the Nineteenth Century: The Shepherds' Guides of the Northern Counties, by Barry McKay; The Edward Clark Collection at Napier University Library, by Edinburgh, by Graeme S. Forbes; Index. DATE: 1999 - 1st edition. DESCRIPTION: Hardbound with gold lettering to spine and front board. 228 pages. CONDITION: Very good. Beautifully bright, clean and tight. Small code in pen to RPEP. OUR THOUGHTS: A lovely copy overall
