Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century
C. Y. Ferdinand
Abstract
This is a study of the English provincial newspaper and book trades in the eighteenth century. The book uses the first thoroughgoing study of the Salisbury Journal and its competitors to reveal how country newspapers worked within and influenced the developing information systems of a region. The detailed revelations of a community's social, economic, literary, and cultural interests extend well beyond Salisbury to the surrounding counties and to London. A hitherto hidden commercial infrastructure shows the interdependent relationship between the writers and makers of newspapers, the principal ... More
Keywords: English provincial newspaper, book trades, publishing, Salisbury Journal, commercial infrastructure, Benjamin Collins
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1997 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198206521 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198206521.001.0001 |
