Books and the People (day to day pamphlets no 18.)

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Day to Day Pamphlets, no. 38. Green paper wrappers.

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Books and the People (day to day pamphlets no 18.)

Author:

Margaret Cole

Publication Date:

1938

Genre:

Literary Criticism

Language:

English

Illustrator:

Edward McKnight Kauffer

Publisher:

The Hogarth Press

Originally titled 'The Democratisation of Books', this essay in the Day to Day Pamphlets series (no. 38) outline's Cole's thesis that the book-world was seeing a revolution in access and the consumption of books. 

Cole's research came from a series of articles published in the Listener between 22 December 1937 and 12 January 1938.