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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | anglais |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Accès en ligne: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Table des matières:
- Bookish profession
- Birth of the law book trade
- Spreading the word : catalogues and cultivation
- Bidding for law books
- Risk, subscriptions, and status
- John Livingston, esq. : law bookseller as cultural entrepreneur
- Selling the law in antebellum America.