“Stokesley Books”: John Slater Pratt and Early Victorian Publishing

Q2 Arts and Humanities

International Journal of Regional and Local History Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI:10.1080/20514530.2018.1451445

M. Chase

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ABSTRACT The burgeoning popular market for cheap reading material in the mid-nineteenth century offered major opportunities for the print trades. Based in the Yorkshire North Riding town of Stokesley, John Slater Pratt (1807–67) transformed a country printing shop into a major producer of cheap novels and non-fiction books. He printed over 300 titles, often in several editions, most of them in the years 1841–53. Many appeared under the imprint of his own London office (1841–50), but he also printed for, and often in partnership with, a range of London and provincial publishers. This was achieved in the intensively competitive market that accompanied the industrialisation of book production and retailing, and in spite of Stokesley not being served by the railways. The firm's origins are explored, and its output analysed. Pratt's short but energetic career offers an illuminating case study both of local industrial history and entrepreneurship, and of the interplay between the English regions and the metropolis in book production, distribution and marketing.

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斯托克斯利图书：约翰·斯莱特·普拉特和早期维多利亚出版社

摘要19世纪中期，廉价读物市场迅速兴起，为印刷行业提供了巨大的机遇。约翰·斯莱特·普拉特（John Slater Pratt，1807-67）以约克郡北里丁镇斯托克斯利为基地，将一家乡村印刷店转变为廉价小说和非小说类书籍的主要生产商。他印刷了300多本书，通常有好几个版本，其中大部分是在1841-53年。许多都是在他自己的伦敦办事处（1841-50）的印记下出现的，但他也为一系列伦敦和省级出版商印刷，并经常与之合作。这是在图书生产和零售业工业化的激烈竞争市场中实现的，尽管斯托克斯利没有铁路服务。对该公司的起源进行了探讨，并对其产出进行了分析。普拉特短暂但充满活力的职业生涯为当地工业历史和创业，以及英国地区和大都市在图书生产、分销和营销方面的相互作用提供了一个富有启发性的案例研究。

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Regional and Local History aims to publish high-quality academic articles which address the history of regions and localities in the medieval, early-modern and modern eras. Regional and local are defined in broad terms, encouraging their examination in both urban and rural contexts, and as administrative, cultural and geographical entities. Regional histories may transcend both local and national boundaries, and offer a means of interrogating the temporality of such structures. Such histories might broaden understandings arrived at through a national focus or help develop agendas for future exploration. The subject matter of regional and local histories invites a number of methodological approaches including oral history, comparative history, cultural history and history from below. We welcome contributions situated in these methodological frameworks but are also keen to elicit inter-disciplinary work which seeks to understand the history of regions or localities through the methodologies of geography, sociology or cultural studies. The journal also publishes book reviews and review articles on themes relating to regional or local history.