Provides an access to information about the authors, printers, and distributors of books in the later seventeenth century. This work allows an insight into the day-to-day workings of the book trade. It is intended for literature specialists, bibliographers, and historians of book production, and also for economic, social, and political historians.
The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 provides, for the first time, easy access to information about the authors, printers, and distributors of books in the later seventeenth century. Chronological entries allow an insight into the day-to-day workings of the book trade. Substantial indexes allow quick reference to information on specific book titles, named authors, and book trade personnel, and specific topics
such as booksellers' bills, coffee-houses, and imported books.
These three valuable volumes are a synthesis of projects independently conceived and undertaken by Maureen Bell and the late Don McKenzie between two and three decades ago, and now completed by Bell. They offer a digest of all the references to the book trade and its workers in some of the key printed records for seventeenth-century bibliographical history... They will certainly save researchers a great deal of time and open up new leads. Maureen Bell has done a
tremendous public service in producing them.
