Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… backgrounds (urban middle-sort, the national landed elites). Places > Cities Places > Trade Keywords Books Commerce Reading In his Autobiography, Dr. Alexander Carlyle, a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, described his … their activities from nearby coffeeshops and taverns, where they would meet to exchange copyrights, to organise public reading and auction sales. If copyright sharing was done secretly among the most influent booksellers, public reading and auctioneering attracted large crowds. From the City, booksellers and printers followed an East-West axis of …
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