My pair of books are out in the world. You can order either of them direct, Dissenting Printers here and Mailrunning here, or from your preferred bookseller.

For more about Dissenting printers or Mailrunning have a look at their separate pages on this site. Between them the books focus on the working lives of two quite different sets of individuals across a long period: an extended family of 17th-century Quaker printers, and a succession of transatlantic packet boat captains during the 18th century and beyond. There is, oddly enough, a patch of common ground. A marine list issued by Edward Lloyd the coffee house keeper was printed at the Quaker press, and both these establishments were located on Lombard Street in the city of London. The foreign mail arrived and departed by way of the General Post Office, also on Lombard Street. Nexus is probably the word for it.

The books are extensively illustrated by documents, maps and paintings of their times.