"All but one of the essays in this collection are based on papers given at the 31st annual conference on book trade history, held at the Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, Bloomsbury, on 29 and 30 November 2009"--Acknowledgements.
It's pretty, but is it art? / Mirjam Foot
Metal-cut border ornaments in Parisian-printed books of hours as design sources for sixteenth-century English works of art / Malcolm Jones
Publishing Palladio in England, 1650-1750 / Charles Hind
The young-mans time well spent : learning to draw from a master / Meghan Doherty
Building a library : evidence from Sir John Soane's archive / Susan Palmer
Colour printing and design reform : Owen Jones and the birth of chromolithography / Abraham Thomas
Art publishing and the leisure market, from the 1840s to the 1870s / Rowan Watson
The art collector and the catalogue from the early 1620s to the early 2000s / Charles Sebag-Montefiore.
Publishing the fine and applied arts, 1500-2000. ISBN 9781584562993. Published by The British Library in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.