The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada
ISBN: 9781487577780
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Book industries and trade -- Canada -- History; Publishers and publishing -- Canada -- History; Printing -- Canada -- History;

This first extensive history of Canada's early book trade begins with the impact of the Gutenberg printing revolution. Parker analyses the role of technological advances in printing, to the growing complexity of the book trade in the major cities up to the time in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Parker George L. :

GEORGE L. PARKER is a member of the Department of English and Philosophy at the Royal Military College of Canada.


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