But it is interesting that the collection on censorship does not include, for example, an article on the ways one specific bookseller dealt with the damage to his inventory.
Lawyers, booksellers, and other professionals began to reside and work in towns in a way distinct from the merchants, tradesmen, and manufacturers who made up the civic community.
In the end, such denunciations may go some way towards explaining the lengths to which booksellers and printers went to propagandize their own social worth in the age of print.
Without this pedagogic stimulus, it is true that the shelves of booksellers would have looked rather bare.
With one stroke of the pen, this measure destroyed most of the trade between the provincial booksellers and foreign publishers.
But only by reading the correspondence of booksellers can one gauge their effects.
Nevertheless, it may be that the libraries worsened the economics of the second-hand bookseller and newsagents.
Moreover, they select one or several booksellers who are asked to deliver the ordered books.
