The Marketing of Printed Books in Late Medieval England

Author / Editor
Edwards, A. S. G.,and Carol M. Meale.

Title
The Marketing of Printed Books in Late Medieval England

Published
Library, 6th ser., 15 (1993): 95-120.

Description
Traces the careers of Caxton, de Worde, and others to show (amid much else) that their interest in publishing Chaucer and other vernacular writers can be correlated with a "movement from opportunistic diversification...to forms of consolidation and diversification involving a pragmatic approach to sharing and developing particular markets."

Contributor
Meale, Carol M.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.