Print Networks is delighted to announce the 2019 winner of the Peter Isaac prize for the best essay in the field of the History of the Book Trade in the Anglophone world.
Richard Bateman: printer, & bookbinder of appleby & seller of proprietary medicines
In browsing through the British Library’s online archive of Cumbrian newspapers for the first half of the nineteenth century and searching for various keywords, I came across an intriguing advertisement from 1826 offering for sale the whole stock in trade and equipment of an unnamed Appleby printer and bookbinder.