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• W2010688653 abstract "Corporatism and Consensus in the Late Eighteenth-Century Book Trade: The Edinburgh Booksellers’ Society in Comparative Perspective Richard B. Sher (bio) On 20 April 1797 William Creech sent the following letter to another prominent Edinburgh bookseller, John Bradfute, of the firm Bell & Bradfute: Dear Sir Mr Cameron is now with me. I wish you could join us for a little. If something is not done before 6 o’Clock our Society is ruined, and Mudie triumphs. We are drawing up a protest, and I want your assistance. Send by the Bearer a Copy of the printed Regulations of the Society. Yrs William Creech Craigs Close 1/2 past 4 o’Clock 1 The organization to which Creech alluded was the Edinburgh Booksellers’ Society, which he had helped to found more than twenty years earlier. Creech believed the society was on the verge of self-destruction unless it [End Page 32] stood up for its principles against a defiant bookseller by the name of George Mudie. Hence the tone of desperation in his hurried note and the request for a copy of the society’s printed regulations. Thanks to the preservation of the Society’s minutes in the National Library of Scotland, 2 it is possible to piece together the main outlines of the perceived crisis facing the Edinburgh Booksellers’ Society in 1797 and to understand why Creech found it so threatening. Before doing so, however, I will attempt to situate Creech’s Edinburgh society within the context of eighteenth-century organizations of booksellers and publishers in other major centers of the English-language book trade. The comparative study of such organizations is still in its early stages, and efforts to discover common patterns are therefore bound to be provisional until further research has been completed. Nevertheless, existing evidence seems sufficient to support some tentative conclusions of a broadly comparative nature. I will argue in this article that in the late eighteenth century the Edinburgh Booksellers’ Society was chiefly concerned with defining corporate consensus and order within the Edinburgh book trade, and that similar concerns often occupied book trade societies and associations in England, Ireland, and North America during the same period. I will also suggest, by way of conclusion, that the methodological principles and findings of this article indicate some of the limitations that characterize the reigning metropolitan, legal-legislative approach to the study of eighteenth-century British book history. I In the late eighteenth century, London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Philadelphia were the four leading centers of book production and distribution in the English-speaking world. London, of course, was the undisputed capital of publishing and bookselling throughout the British empire, typically producing more than twice as many publications in a given year as all other towns in Britain, Ireland, and North America put together. However, each of the four cities also functioned as a national or regional capital of the book trade: London for England, Dublin for Ireland, Edinburgh for Scotland, and Philadelphia for portions of North America. Although several other cities vied for leadership within these nations or regions (notably Boston in America, particularly in New England), none of them matched the four capitals as late eighteenth-century publishing and bookselling centers. A rough idea of the leadership role they played in book production is conveyed by the following table, showing imprints by decade for the four towns and [End Page 33] their six closest rivals from 1750 to 1800, arranged according to the highest total of imprints for the half-century: 3 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s Total 1. London 16,289 17,592 21,050 25,133 35,417 115,481 2. Dublin 2,402 2,405 2,163 2,757 4,346 14,073 3. Edinburgh 2,093 3,864 2,555 2,073 3,197 13,782 4. Philadelphia 412 752 1,526 1,683 4,372 8,745 5. Boston 896 1,058 1,304 954 2,071 6,283 6. Glasgow 762 631 608 600 1,128 3,729 7. New York 209 385 728 580 1,187 3,089 8. Oxford 449 349 395 360 450 2,003 9. Newcastle 206 272 512 392 480 1,862 10. Cambridge 211 289..." @default.
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