Dissertation Information for Russell Duino NAME: - Russell Duino
DEGREE:
- Ph.D.
DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science
SCHOOL:
- University of Pittsburgh (USA) (1981)
ADVISORS: - Ellen Detlefsen
COMMITTEE MEMBERS: - E. Blanche Woolls - Wendell Wray - Margaret M. Kimmel - Cynthia Sutherland
MPACT Status: Fully Complete
Title: THE CLEVELAND BOOK TRADE, 1819-1912: LEADING FIRMS AND OUTSTANDING MEN
Abstract: The purpose of this dissertation is twofold: to trace the development of the book trade in Cleveland from its beginnings to the early years of the twentieth century, and to ascertain the similarities or differences between Cleveland's book trade and that of two nearby cities, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. The arrangement of the work is strictly chronological through the first six chapters. Chapter V, for example, covers the 1850s, a significant decade which saw the establishment of two long-lived bookstores, the J. B. Cobb Company and Ingham and Bragg. Also, in 1851, John P. Jewett, the Boston publisher, opened a Cleveland branch, thanks to which "Cleveland" appears on the title-page of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The 1870s were a watershed in the growth of the Cleveland book trade, a decade in which bookstores and publishing houses doubled in numbers over what they had been in the 1860s. By 1885 their numbers had doubled once more. Chapters VII and VIII discuss this phenomenal growth, focusing especially upon the activities of Burrows Brothers, booksellers and publishers. As publishers the Burrows Brothers are best known for their seventy-three volume set of The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents.
Chapter IX discusses the founding of the Rowfant Club, Cleveland's venerable bibliophile society, in 1892, centering upon its role as publisher of fine books in limited editions. Chapter X talks about some twentieth century publishers, notably Arthur H. Clark, and closes with an account of Burrows' attempt to publish a history of the United States which would be finer than all others, a project which led to their virtual bankruptcy and brought about the sale of their business in 1912.
Chapter XI is called Summary and Conclusions. Two important conclusions are: that major publishing activities did not occur in Cleveland until the 1880s, and that Cleveland had no outstanding publisher before Arthur H. Clark, who started his firm in 1902, a company that is still in business in Glendale, California.
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