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Just the Ticket!: The Surprising Origins, Wonderful Life, and Shock Death of 19th-Century Railway Library Fiction (en Inglés)
John Spiers (Autor)
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Edward Everett Root
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Just the Ticket!: The Surprising Origins, Wonderful Life, and Shock Death of 19th-Century Railway Library Fiction (en Inglés) - John Spiers
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This landmark work provides new and comprehensive illustrated and documented guidance to the major popular publishing revolution of the 'railway libraries' from the 1840s onwards, in these several countries.These revolutionary changes in popular publishing were prompted by the Belfast educational and religious publishers Simms & M'Intyre. They discovered the enormous and previously unrealised 'carrying capacity' of the new middle-class market for cheaper new fiction, and inevitably others joined in. Their initiatives were duly (if initially only tentatively) copied by George Routledge, who became one of the greatest Victorian publishers. These publishers issued very attractively produced cheaper pocket-sized novels at 2s, and 1s. they became widely known as 'yellowbacks' in coloured illustrated covers. They were sold to train travellers on the fast growing railway networks, and internationally.In February 1846, Simms & M'Intyre issued the first of 14 volumes in small 8vo. format in their revolutionary Parlour Novelist series at 2s. The series was issued monthly from February 1846 to early in 1847. In April 1847 they followed this by publishing the first volume in their pocket-sized small 8vo. format Parlour Library series, this being continued by them up to 1853, eventually amounting to more than 300 titles by a succession of London publishers in several take-overs. The Belfast firm's second series, The Parlour Library, daringly began with an entirely new work of fiction, The Black Prophet: A Tale of the Irish Famine, by the peasant-born ultra-realist William Carleton, which was issued on 1 April 1847 and which sold for 1s. In November/December 1848, George Routledge issued the first title in The Railway Library and Fireside Companion series at 1s. This ran to over 1,200 titles over 50 years, and became one of the core focus activities which long defined the firm in the book market. As this work shows, the new reading public became a crucial social fact, leading on to mass society. Read more
