Microform Collection

Title: Book Prospectuses before 1801 in the John Johnson Collection. Bodleian Library. Oxford
Call Number:  MICROFICHE 2522
Publisher:  Oxford: Oxford Microfilm Publications, 1976
Description: 27 fiche

Subject(s):

Johnson, Jon de Monins, 1882-1956 - Library
Bodleian Library
Book industries and trade - England - History

Notes:  The prospectuses, put out by bookseller/publishers in order to gather enough assurances of financial support by subscribers to enable the publication of a work to be undertaken economically, have long been recognised as an important source for historians of the book trade.

The John Johnson Collection (assembled & categorised by a former University Printer) contains an important group of these stray flysheets and sample texts, which occupy a special place in the history of the seventeenth and eighteenth century trade.
Reviewed in Microform Review 11 (3) : 187-188, 1982.
Book prospectuses held in Bodleian Library, Oxford.

As far as possible the prospectuses are arranged in chronological order.  The printed catalogue contains a brief history of this form of publisher's advertising, followed by a chronological listing of the collection, with additional bibliographical particulars.  Each fiche has in its last two frames a contents list and an index to titles, authors and translators.  The final fiche has general indexes of authors, editors, etc. and of book trade personnel arranged by town.

Publication type: Book prospectuses
Country: Britain
Time period: 1610-1800

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