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  • 32 - The English provinces

  • from BEYOND LONDON: PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, RECEPTION
  • Edited by John Barnard, University of Leeds, D. F. McKenzie, University of Oxford
  • With Maureen Bell, University of Birmingham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    14 November 2002, pp 665-686

  • Summary

    The relationship between the London book trade and the provinces was for most of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries conditioned by the power of members of the London Stationers' trade in controlling printing and distribution. The main role of the provincial book trade in England and Wales from 1557 to 1695 was the distribution of vernacular books printed and published in London and the sale of school books in Latin, printed either in London or abroad. The importation of Bibles and psalms printed more cheaply abroad was a long-standing problem for the London Company. The London trade has preoccupied most historical accounts of the press in England from 1557 to 1695. Together with the emergent trade with the American colonies, the establishment of clear and increasingly reciprocal distribution networks throughout the English provinces in these years.