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Cheap Bibles: Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the British and Foreign Bible Society » (First Paperback Edition)

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Authors: Leslie Howsam, David McKitterick (Editor), Terry Belanger
ISBN-13: 9780521522120, ISBN-10: 0521522129
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: August 2002
Edition: First Paperback Edition

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Author Biography: Leslie Howsam

Book Synopsis

The story of the British and Foreign Bible Society - a publisher and Victorian social institution.

Table of Contents

Preface; Sources and acknowledgments;

1. Saints in publishing;
2. A Bible translation, 1804-1840;
3. The BFBS and English printers, 1804-1864;
4. The BFBS and London bookbinders, 1811-1864;
5. The BFBS and bookselling, 1804-1864;
6. The transaction renewed, 1850s and 60s; Epilogue; Appendix; Select book list; Notes.

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