Benjamin Collins and the Provincial Newspaper Trade in the Eighteenth Century [Hardcover]

This pioneering study of the provincial book and newspaper trade is based on the first thoroughgoing study of a regional paper and its competitors. Using new archival material and the biography of the entrepreneur, Benjamin Collins, Christine Ferdinand reveals the interdependent relationship between the writers and makers of newspapers, the principal members of the London book trade, and the new market for the printed word.

[T]his analysis of a successful and efficient business is of importance to anyone wishing to understand eighteenth-century England as a consumer society or how London-country relations worked or the commercial and information structures of the country. It takes us into new realms of newspaper history and its implications. --Albion