Volume 4: Publishers, Markets, Readers
Volume 4 Introduction
Bibliography
Part 1. THE PRICE OF BOOKS
- Charles Knight, The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: John Murray, 1854), pp. 238-58.
- 'Literature for the People', Times (9 Feb 1854), p. 10.
- 'Cheap Books and their Readers: An Interview with Mr Routledge', Pall Mall Gazette (19 Nov 1885), pp. 1-2.
- 'Shilling Literature', Time (July 1885), 115-7.
- 'The New Departure in Publishing: A Six-shilling Novel for Sixpence', Publishers' Circular (13 May 1899), pp. 519-20.
- A.D. Innes, 'The Production and Purchase of Books'. Paper delivered to the Third International Congress of Publishers, London 7-10 June 1899 (London : Printed for the Organising Committee by Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1899).
- 'The Booksellers on the Question of Cheaper Books', Academy (21 May 1898), 558-9.
- Wm Laird Clowes, 'The Cheapening of Useful Books', Fortnightly Review (July 1901), 88-98.
- W. T. Stead, 'The World's Classics; or Bound Books for the Million', Review of Reviews (November 1901), 544-6.
Part 2. THE CIRCULATION OF BOOKS
- James Grant, extract from The Great Metropolis, second series (London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), I, pp. 121-40.
- Charles Knight, extract from The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: John Murray, 1854), pp. 260-9.
- 'The Circulation of Modern Literature', Spectator (3 Jan 1863), pp. 16-18.
- 'The Publications of a Year', Leisure Hour (21 March 1863), 190-2.
- Walter Montagu Gattie, 'What English People Read', Fortnightly Review (September 1889), 307-21.
- Joseph Ackland, 'Elementary Education and the Decay of Literature', Nineteenth Century (March 1894), pp. 412-23.
- 'Do English People Buy Books?' The Author, 1 (16 March 1891), pp. 288-91.
Part 3. POPULAR PUBLISHING AND READING
- Thomas Frost, 'Popular Literature Forty Years Ago', in Forty Years Recollections (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1880), pp. 77-95.
- Charles Manby Smith, 'The Press of the Seven Dials', Chambers's Journal (28 June 1856), pp. 401-5.
- Report of the Select Committee on Newspaper Stamps (1851), pp. 371-80.
- 'Literature of the People-Past and Present', Athenaeum (1 January 1870), pp. 11-14.
- William Alexander, 'Literature of the People - Past and Present', Good Words (Dec 1876), pp. 92-6.
- [Francis Hitchman], 'Penny Fiction', Quarterly Review (July 1890), pp. 150-71.
Part 4. RAILWAY BOOKSTALLS
- ['The New Business in Bookselling'], Athenaeum (27 January 1849), p. 95.
- Literature of the Rail: Re-published, by permission, from "The Times" of Saturday 9th August 1851, with a preface (London: John Murray, 1851).
- 'Railroad Bookselling', Saturday Review (31 January 1857), pp. 100-2.
- 'Our Modern Mercury', Once a Week (2 February 1861), pp. 160-3.
- 'W.H. Smith & Son's', Ludgate Monthly (January 1892), pp. 161-9.
- 'The Harmsworth Magazine: Some Interviews', Academy (16 July 1898), pp. 67-8
- 'The Bookstall Monopoly', Graphic (23 July 1898), p. 58.
Part 5. PERIODICAL MARKETS
- 'The Edinburgh Review (1802-1902)', Edinburgh Review, CCCCII (October 1902), pp. 275-80; 284-86, 287-91, 295-96.
- 'Publishing and Puffing', Metropolitan Magazine (Oct 1833), 171-8.
- [Christian Isobel Johnstone], 'Johnstone's Edinburgh Magazine', Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (January 1834), pp. 490-500.
- 'Chambers's Edinburgh Journal', Chambers's Edinburgh Journal (1 February 1834), pp. 1-2.
- George M. Smith, 'Our Birth and Parentage', Cornhill Magazine (January 1901), pp. 4-17.
- William Westall, 'Newspaper Fiction', Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (June 1890), pp. 77-88.
- 'Popular Magazines, Circulating Libraries, and the Sale of Books', Bookman (June 1898), pp. 67-70.
Part 6. CIRCULATING LIBRARIES AND THE FICTION MARKET
- Charles Knight, extract from The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: John Murray, 1854), pp. 229-34.
- Catherine Gore, 'The Monster Misery of Literature', Blackwood's Magazine (May 1844), pp. 556-60.
- 'New and Cheap Forms of Popular Literature', Eclectic Review (July 1845), pp. 74-84.
- 'Mudie's Library', Leisure Hour (March 1886), pp. 187-9.
- William C. Preston, 'Mudie's Library', Good Words (December 1894), pp. 668-76
- 'Mr Mudie's Monopoly', Literary Gazette (29 September 1860), article and selected subsequent correspondence. [Original article, 29 September; letter from Mudie to the Athenaeum, 6 October; letter from 'Z', 6 October; letter from Fair Play, 20 October; letter from 'Senex', 27 October; 'Mudie's Library', Saturday Review, 3 November; letters from Saunders, Otley and A Second-Rate Author, 17 November; letter from Charles J. Skeet, 24 November].
- 'A Novel - One Guinea and a Half', Saturday Review (11 November 1871), pp. 615-16.
- Samuel Tinsley, 'Three-Volume Novels', letter to the Times (4 December 1871).
- 'On the Forms of Publishing Fiction', Tinsley's Magazine (May 1872), pp. 411-14.
- Alexander Innes Shand, 'The Novelists and their Patrons', Fortnightly Review (July 1886), pp. 23-35.
- 'The Circulating Libraries and Three-Volume Novels', Publishers' Circular (7 July 1894), pp. 5, 7-8
- 'The Three-Volume Novel', The Author 5:3 (1 August 1894), pp. 63-5.
Part 7. OBSCENITY LAW AND THE BOOK TRADE
- Extract from 'Second Reading in the House of Lords of the Sale of Obscene Books Prevention Bill', Hansard, HL vol. 146 (25 June 1857), cols 329-337.
- The Case of 'The Confessional Unmasked'. Being a Report of the Proceedings at Wolverhampton, and in the Court of Queen's Bench, in the Matter of the Appeal 'Scott v. Justices of Wolverhampton' (London: A. Gadsby, 1868), pp. 36-48.
- Extract from The National Vigilance Association, Pernicious Literature. Debate in the House of Commons. Trial and conviction for sale of Zola's novels. With opinions of the press (London: National Vigilance Association, [1889]), pp. 5-19.
Index