Most of the essays focus on the key figures - authors, booksellers, and printers - in the production of different types of publication.
Low-status occupations included a bookseller, lodging-house keepers, a coffee-stand keeper and teachers.
The books may be purchased from any bookseller.
First, there was no consensus among the profession, as, for example, booksellers' unions are in favour of a free market.
Subscribers and contributors include publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary agents, authors and others involved professionally with the book in thirty countries.
We should not underestimate the importance of the booksellers' privileges in this matter, but more was at stake.
Outside the house a whole new commercial world emerged as enterprising booksellers and stationers began producing guidebooks, whether official or unofficial, for would-be visitors.
Moreover, they select one or several booksellers who are asked to deliver the ordered books.
