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.
- ISBN10 0802025471
- ISBN13 9780802025470
- Publish Date 19 October 1985
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 August 2012
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint University of Toronto Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 376
- Language English