The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling.

David McKitterick is Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography in the University of Cambridge.

'The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is one of the great scholarly enterprises of our time ... Far from being a series of good essays on interesting topics, taken as a whole this book is not merely the best history of the book in nineteenth-century Britain which we have. It is, in the present state of our knowledge, just about the best that could be written.' John Feather, The Rare Books Newsletter '... this book is an indispensable acquisition for any general or humanities library ...' Karen Attar, University of London