Legal publishing in antebellum America

Legal Publishing in Antebellum America presents a history of the law book publishing and distribution industry in the United States. Part business history, part legal history, part history of information diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich shows how various developments in printing and bookbinding, the introd...

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Main Author: Hoeflich, Michael H.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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505 0 0 |t Bookish profession --  |t Birth of the law book trade --  |t Spreading the word : catalogues and cultivation --  |t Bidding for law books --  |t Risk, subscriptions, and status --  |t John Livingston, esq. : law bookseller as cultural entrepreneur --  |t Selling the law in antebellum America. 
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