Portable directories [ Print culture ]
… coaches'. 3 At 3 shillings each, Nathaniel Salmon sold an abridged account of the present peers, ‘their marriages, issue, and immediate ancestors; the posts of honour and profit they hold in the government (…) and their near relations, … these directories reached a larger audience than it would first appear and their commercial success raises several wider issues. 2 . On the crucial exchanges between publishers and families, see Stéphane Jettot, ‘Family input in the making of …
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