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Reviews "In an interesting and wide-ranging study of several writers and their relations with printers of Piccadilly from, roughly, the 1760s through the early 1800s, Eric Stockdale provides a fascinating glimpse of parliamentary intrigue; printers' and booksellers' bravery, knavery, competitiveness, and shifting political alliances; and the changing markets and economies of the printing trade... In pursuing this study of Piccadilly printers and their circles, the author, a retired circuit court judge, pursued what has been a lifelong fascination with the court trials of printers John Stockdale and his son, John Joseph Stockdale. In addition to examining many relevant scholarly materials, the author worked diligently in several archives, consulting manuscripts, papers, and records deposited in numerous archives." Carla Mulford Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America “Eric Stockdale’s enthralling volume about the life of London bookseller John Stockdale not only informs about the role of that individual whose meteoric rise from porter to publisher was the stuff of legend in his time, but also offers the reader an excellent contextual overview of transatlantic print culture during the 1780s. …It will be of interest to anyone with a focus on the eighteenth-century book trade; …the author manages to illuminate an entire era.” Catharine Armstrong Journal of the Printing Historical Society