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The Four 18th-Century Publishers and Booksellers Who Made Reading Affordable

Today it is easy to forget that books were once luxury goods. A modern reader can buy a novel for a few pounds, download thousands of classics completely free, or borrow almost anything from a library. But in the early eighteenth century, owning a finely bound volume was a privilege reserved largely for the wealthy….
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Written on March 8, 2026 at 10:15 am, by Jane Davis

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