1. Studies on agents are few and far between. On Tayler, see also M. L. Turner (2010) ‘Distribution — The Case of William Tayler’, in M. F. Suarez and M. L. Turner (eds) The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5: 1695–1830 (Cambridge), pp. 466–78.
2. On White: D. Chandler (2004) ‘“There Never Was His Like!”: A Biography of James White (1775–1820)’, The Journal of the Charles Lamb Society, CXXVIII, 78–95 p. 81).
3. C. Y. Ferdinand (1993) ‘Selling It to the Provinces: News and Commerce around Eighteenth-Century Salisbury’, in J. Brewer and R. Porter (eds) Consumption and the World of Goods (London), p. 397.
4. J. D. Andrew (1955) ‘The Derbyshire Newspaper Press, 1720–1855’ (Reading Univ., MA thesis), pp. 329–41.
5. On advertising and press finance: Ivon Asquith (1975) ‘Advertising and the Press in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: James Perry and the Morning Chronicle 1790–1821’, Historical Journal, XVIII, 703–24;