This volume is a public version of volume 97 of the Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society which was sent to members at the end of 2001.  It arose from a Day School held in March 2001, on the history of bookselling and printing in Manchester.  The contents are: -

Eddie Cass and Morris Garratt (Editors): Introduction

Peter Isaacs: The English Provincial Book Trade to 1800

Terry Wyke: Publishing and Reading Books etc., in Nineteenth Century Manchester

Craig Horner: That great fountain of Truth, Good Manners and what not: competing for the hearts and minds of newspaper readers in Manchester 1730-60

Julie Ramwell: Joseph and James Harrop of Manchester

B E Maidment: The Manchester Common Reader - Abel Heywood’s evidence and the early Victorian reading public.

Michael Powell: Towards a history of Book-ownership in Manchester

Steve Collins: ‘An eminent Bibliophile and Man of Letters‘: James Crossley of Manchester.

Tony Gibb: Secondhand bookselling in Manchester: a personal backward glance

Eddie Cass: The G R Axon Collection of Broadsides

Rod Evans: Manchester Book Trade: A preliminary bibliography

Hardback with dust jacket, 200 pages, 19 illustrations and five tables. £19.50, including postage and packing.

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