'Your side of the water': nineteenth-century Scottish publishers and their wholesale trade with Dublin.
The article focuses on the wholesale book market of Scottish publishers in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland during the nineteenth-century. The Irish book industry faced a series of developments including the enforcement of the copyright acts in Ireland in the eighteenth century. Increased dues p...
| Published in: | Long Room no. 50-51; pp. 22 - 41 |
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Trinity College, Friends of the Library
2005/2006
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the wholesale book market of Scottish publishers in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland during the nineteenth-century. The Irish book industry faced a series of developments including the enforcement of the copyright acts in Ireland in the eighteenth century. Increased dues payable on imported paper had threatened Irish printers' profit margins. Author Mary Pollard said that the value of books imported into Ireland from Great Britain and the Continent increased. |
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