'These are Terrible Times': New Evidence of the Publishers' Crash of 1826 in the Unpublished Correspondence of William Blackwood and Alexander Blackwood.
The article focuses on the Publishers' Crash of 1826, a financial disaster in Britain that devastated major booksellers and publishers in England and Scotland, including Archibald Constable and Company, Hurst, Robinson and Company, Thomas Cadell the Younger, and James Ballantyne. This collapse was l...
| Publicado en: | Notes & Queries Vol. 72; no. 4; pp. 382 - 388 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2025
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