Furious Booksellers.
This essay explores the trans-Atlantic book trade through a case study on the publication of Walter Scott's Waverley novels. The Waverley novels were printed in Edinburgh but distributed mostly in London, where publishers from Philadelphia initially acquired them for reprinting and sale in the Unite...
| Publicado en: | Early American Studies, An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 557 - 583 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Fall2013
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