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Five Centuries of Printing in London

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

William Kahl
William Kahl
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Simmons College
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Business History Review , Volume 35 , Issue 3 , Autumn 1961 , pp. 445 - 456
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1961

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References

1 The Economist, March 11, 1961, March 18, 1961; The Times [London], March 9, 1961Google Scholar; The Sunday Times [London], July 2, 1961Google Scholar.

2 Blagden, Cyprian, The Stationers' Company. A history, 1403-1959 (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 321Google Scholar pp.; Handover, P. M., Printing in London from 1476 to modern times (Cambridge, Mass., 1960), 224Google Scholar pp.; Dudek, Louis, Literature and the press (Toronto, 1960), 238Google Scholar pp.; Gettmann, Royal A., A Victorian publisher. A study of the Bentley papers (Cambridge, England, 1960), 272Google Scholar pp.

3 Pollard, Graham, “The company of Stationers before 1557” and “The early constitution of the Stationers' Company,” The Library, 4th ser., vol. xviii (1938)Google Scholar.

4 Ibid., pp. 16-18.

5 Blagden, The Stationers' Company, pp. 25-28.

6 Ibid., p. 32.

7 Ibid., chap. IV.

8 Ibid., pp. 74-77.

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