Announcing 'Lives in Book History: Changing Contours Over Forty Years'

Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote

The cover of a book titled lives in book history

In 2018, in celebration of the 40th year of our annual conferences on book trade history, the authors explored some of the most important themes and developments in this field through the eyes and experience of some of its most widely respected exponents. Leading authorities discussed their engagement with book trade history, looking back over their own work to identify the significant influences upon them and changes in focus and research methods over time.


After losing their publisher in 2010, they lagged behind with publication of the proceedings of the conferences, which until then had come out regularly on the first day of the following year's conference. Unable to find another publisher for some years, catching up had become impossible. However, they decided to select the proceedings from the 2018 conference, which had special significance, to be published in a stylish production with The Garendon Press.


Gerard de Lisle and Robin Myers founded The Garendon Press (called after the ancestral home of the March Phillipps de Lisle family) in 2018. Its first publication, Two Huguenot Brothers, Letters of Andrew and James Coltée Ducarel, 1732–1773, edited by Robin Myers and Gerard de Lisle, appeared in 2019.


Lives in Book History is its second publication, designed, as the previous volume was, by Robert Dalrymple. Illustrated, with sewn, rounded and backed binding, and attractively jacketed, it is an elegant production, modestly priced at £35, plus postage and packing [UK: £10; Overseas: £20]. 


Copies of Lives in Book History can be obtained from: 


Robin Myers

The Garendon Press, 302 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QG 

Email: rm248@cam.ac.uk | Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 247749


An order form is available here.


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