Societies As Publishers: The Religious tract society in the mid-nineteenth century.

The article presents a reassessment on the role of publishing societies in the nineteenth-century book trade and demonstrates that being a society did not necessarily result in either commercial mediocrity or injustice. It introduces the Religious Tract Society, considered as one of the largest and...

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Publicado en:Publishing History no. 58; pp. 5 - 42
Autor principal: Fyfe, Aileen
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Chadwyck-Healey Limited 2005
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