The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Volume 3: Ambition and Industry, 1800‐1880

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Vol. 2. Enlightenment and Expansion 1707‐1800

“…Scotland's publishing and book trades flourished during this century helped by the union with England and also by the passing of the Copyright Act of 1710, which opened up British and overseas markets and made Scotland's four universities deposit libraries on a par with those in London, Oxford and Cambridge. Volume 1 (Mann and Mapstone, 2007) covers the period to 1707 and volumes 3 (Bell, 2007) and 4 (Finkelstein and McCleery, 2007) cover the ninetieth and twentieth centuries making this the most comprehensive study of the subject. The Scottish Book Trade 1500‐1720: Print Commerce and Print Control in Early Modern Scotland … by Alastair Mann (Mann, 2000), who jointly edited volume one of this series, is one of the few other titles on this specialist subject.…”