This 1957 text was the first thorough account of the serial
publication of books in the eighteenth century. Professor Wiles
shows how, first by serialization in newspapers and then by
releasing instalments of a work in progress in small packets of
sheets stitched in blue paper and delivered regularly to
subscribers, English publishers made new and old books available to
a great number of readers. It had not previously been realized how
extensive the practice was. As a method of publishing it had
important effects: because books could be sent out in instalments
the high price of books sold was no longer a bar to the spread of
literacy and useful knowledge. After explaining the growth of this
method from the last years of the seventeenth century until 1750,
Professor Wiles gives important chapters to related questions, such
as the state of the law of copyright.
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