Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… on their ability to liaise with customers from various social backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). Places > Cities Places > Trade Keywords Books Commerce Reading In his Autobiography, Dr. Alexander Carlyle, a … a shop keeper, distancing folios from casual modes of selection based on browsing and, in turn, giving them a certain "elite" status’. ‘Buying into Classes: The Practice of Book Selection in Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Eighteenth-Century … on their ability to liaise with customers from various social backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). … Bell, Bill, Bennet, Philip and Bevan, Jonquil (eds.), Across Boundaries: The Book in Culture and Commerce …
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