'Using newspaper advertisements to study the book trade. A year in the life of Mary Cooper' in O M Brack (ed), Writers, Books and Trade. An eighteenth century English miscellany for William B Todd

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Author(s) Schneller, Beverly
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1994
Pages pp123-43
Publisher AMS Press
Place Published New York NY

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Name Women in business
Name Advertising

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Discusses 18th century newspaper advertisements, eg from the 'Daily Advertiser', as a source of information 'to compose initial biographies of authors' works, to trace the activities of book publishers and to study the purchasing habits of the reading public'. Deals with advertisements placed by the bookseller and publisher, Mary Cooper, in 1753