Routledge Library Editions: Publishing and Printing
About the Book Series
This 11-volume set, first published between 1934 and 1998, provides a comprehensive historical overview of the publishing industry’s development, including key figures, technological advances, and organizational structures from the fifteenth century through to the modern era. Individual titles include histories of Taylor & Francis, Routledge and associated imprints, and the emergence of electronic publishing.
A History of the National Graphical Association
1st Edition
By John Gennard
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1990 and written with full access to the official records of the NGA, this book provides a remarkably detailed history of one of Britain’s most democratic and industrially effective trades unions. The author describes and analyses the evolution and development of the NGA ...
British Book Trade Organisation: A Report on the Work of the Joint Committee
1st Edition
Edited
By F. D. Sanders
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1939, British Book Trade Organisation: A Report on the Work of the Joint Committee is a twelve-year study of the methods of book sales in Britain. The Joint Committee issued three reports, which were summarised here along with the Committee’s Recommendations, and an ...
Dr Johnson's Printer: The Life of William Strahan
1st Edition
By J. A. Cochrane
October 08, 2025
William Strahan was one of the leading figures in the book trade of the eighteenth century. As King’s Printer, a member of Parliament and the owner of the greatest printing house in London, he stood at the head of his craft: in addition to his long friendship and business connection with Johnson, ...
Electronic Publishing: Looking for a Blueprint
1st Edition
By Joost Kist
October 08, 2025
With the development of new technologies over the previous decade and more moderately priced and faster systems becoming available Electronic Publishing, originally published in 1987, provided a much-needed close look at present and potential publishing techniques at the time. In the view of the ...
From Swan Sonnenschein to George Allen & Unwin Ltd
1st Edition
By F. A. Mumby, Frances H. S. Stallybrass
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1955, From Swan Sonnenschein to George Allen & Unwin Ltd states that the lives of certain publishing houses are a direct reflection of the cultural history of the period in which they work. They draw their successes from the intellectual enthusiasms of the time and in no...
Pioneers in Printing
1st Edition
By Seán Jennett
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1958, through a series of lively biographies of men important in the history of printing – Gutenberg, Caxton, Baskerville, Caslon, Senefelder, Koenig, Mergenthaler, and Lanston – Pioneers in Printing traces the growth and development of the craft of printing from its ...
Printer to the House: The Story of Hansard
1st Edition
By J. C. Trewin, E. M. King
October 08, 2025
Everyone knows the name of Hansard, the famous record of Parliamentary proceedings. Very few people know how it began. Originally published in 1952, here was for the first time, the authoritative history of the Hansard family and of its work, for nearly 100 years, as Parliamentary printers in ...
Printing in London: From 1476 to Modern Times
1st Edition
By P. M. Handover
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1960, the early history of news-gathering, of advertisement blocks and displayed advertising, of women’s magazine, are among the varied aspects of the London printing trade discussed in this book. Separate chapters are devoted to jobbing printing and the controversial, ...
Routledge Library Editions: Publishing and Printing: 11 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
October 08, 2025
This 11-volume set, first published between 1934 and 1998, provides a comprehensive historical overview of the publishing industry’s development, including key figures, technological advances, and organizational structures from the fifteenth century through to the modern era. Individual titles ...
The Book World Today: A New Survey of the Making and Distribution of Books in Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hampden
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1957, The Book World Today was the most comprehensive survey yet attempted of the making and distribution of books in Britain at the time. All the main aspects and problems of this complicated process are expounded by men of high standing in their own fields, who wrote from ...
The House of Routledge 1834–1934: With a History of Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Other Associated Firms
1st Edition
By F. A. Mumby
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1934, The House of Routledge, 1834-1934, was published for the company’s centenary. It tells the story of George Routledge and how he forged his way to the forefront of publishing by ‘sheer indomitable energy’. One of the objects of the work was to place on record the ...
The Lamp of Learning: Two Centuries of Publishing at Taylor & Francis
1st Edition
By W. H. Brock, A. J. Meadows
October 08, 2025
Originally published in 1998, when for two centuries Taylor & Francis had been committed to the publication of scholarly information. Ever since the launching of the Philosophical Magazine in 1798, the publishing company run by Richard Taylor and later by William Francis has specialised in the ...