The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III.


XXIX. Book Publishers and Publishing.

Bibliography.



GENERAL WORKS

Address of Certain Authors of Great Britain to the House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress Assembled. Congressional Record, Washington, 1888, vol. 19, p. 3241.

Address to the People of the United States in behalf of the American Copyright Club Adopted at New York, October 18, 1843. [Signed by William Cullen Bryant, Francis L. Hawks, and Cornelius Matthews.]
Andrews, W. L. The Old Booksellers of New York. 1895.
Appleton, W. H. Letters on International Copyright. 1878.
Authors and Publishers. A Description of Publishing Methods and Arrangements. 4th ed., 1855.
Ayer, C. S. Foreign Drama on the English and American Stage. University of Colorado Studies, June, 1909; Dec., 1909; Nov., 1913; Nov., 1914.
Baird, H. C. Copyright, National and International, An Address. Philadelphia. 1884. Editorial Contributions to the Trade History—Number One. The Carey-Baird Centenary, January 25, 1885. The American Bookseller, 1 July, 1885.
Bassett, J. S. The Middle Group of American Historians. 1917.
Beers, H. A. Nathaniel Parker Willis. Boston, 1885.
Bentley, W. Diary. 4 vols. Salem, Mass., 1905.
Bibliographical Guide to American Literature, 1817–1857. London, 1859.
Bolton, C. K. Circulating Libraries in Boston, 1765–1865. Reprinted from The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Proceedings, Feb., 1907.
Books in Williamsburg. William and Mary College Quarterly, Oct., 1906.
Boston’s Oldest Publishing House [Little, Brown and Company]. Reprint from The Nation, 8 July, 1915.
Bowker, R. R. Copyright, Its Law and Its Literature. 1886.
Bradsher, E. L. A Model American Library of 1793. Sewanee Review, Oct., 1916. An Early American Publisher and His Audience. Sewanee Review, July, 1913. Early American Book Prices. Publisher’s Weekly, 8 Mar., 1913. The Financial Rewards of American Authors. Sewanee Review, April, 1920. The First American Edition of the Lyrical Ballads. South Atlantic Quarterly, July, 1917. Mathew Carey: Editor, Author, and Publisher. A Study in American Literary Development. 1912. The Money Returns of American Authorship. Bookman, June, 1919. Richard Dabney. Sewanee Review, July, 1915.
Brett, G. P. Book Publishing and Its Present Tendencies. Atlantic Monthly, Apr., 1913.
Brotherhead, W. Forty Years Among the Old Booksellers of Philadelphia, 1891.
Brown, W. G. The Lower South in American History. 1903.
Brown, F. F. American Publishing and Publishers (1880–1900). Dial, 1 May, 1900.
Carey, M. Autobiographical Sketches, in a Series of Letters Addressed to a Friend. Philadelphia, 1892. [In The New England Magazine, Vol. 5, p. 404, 489; vol. 6, p. 60, 93, 227, 306, 400; vol. 7, p. 61, 145, 239, 320, 401, 481. (1833–4).]
Catalogue of Authors Whose Works are Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. Prefaced by a Sketch of the Firm. Boston, 1899.
Cist, C. Cincinnati in 1841: Its Early Annals and Future Prospects. Cincinnati, 1841.
Collins, V. L. Early Princeton Printing. Princeton, 1911.
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Daly, J. J., Dayton, E. W., McLean, S. F., Parker, W. H., and others. The Department Store: Can the Book Trade Compete with It. Publishers’ Weekly, 15 Jan., 1898.
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Ford, P. The Journals of Hugh Gaine, Printer. 2 vols. 1902.
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Green, S. A. Early History of Printing in New England. Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc., Second Series, Vol. xi, pp. 240–254 (1897). John Foster the Earliest American Engraver and the First Boston Printer. Boston, 1909. Ten Facsimile Reproductions relating to New England. Boston, 1902.
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MANUSCRIPTS
Belknap Papers. Correspondence of Jeremy Belknap, author, with Ebenezer Hazard, bookseller and publisher of Philadelphia, and others. 1779–1798. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Carey Papers. About 510 bound volumes relating to every phase of the publishing business of the firm of Mathew Carey and Successors, 1787–1823; 1834–1837; 1841–1842. [This forms, overwhelmingly, the greatest body of literature relating to American publishing that is now extant.] Lea & Febriger, Philadelphia.
Knox Manuscripts. Papers of Henry Knox, Boston bookseller, 1771–75. Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston.
Thomas, Isaiah. A few of the papers of Isaiah Thomas, historian, bookseller, and publisher, are in possession of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Mass.