Download or read book A History of Booksellers written by Henry Curwen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1874, A History of Booksellers illustrates the close relationship between publishers, authors and their public. Curwen develops his theme by means of anecdotal and entertaining studies of individual British publishing houses, mostly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, with a brief survey of earlier periods.