John Smith, Youngest (1784-1849), and the book trade of Glasgow

This thesis is a response to Darnton’s challenge that ‘more work needs to be done on the bookseller as a cultural agent’, and offers as a case study the career of the early nineteenth- century Glasgow bookseller John Smith, Youngest (1784-1849), and the company John Smith and Son (founded 1751). Ear...

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Main Author: Hall, Stephen
Published: University of Glasgow 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.726706