ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the craft and technology of bookmaking in the nineteenth century and demonstrates how material, economic and social concerns shaped the nature of books of travel. Focusing on the authorship, publication and reprinting of one nineteenth-century narrative of travel – Basil Hall’s Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea (1818) – the chapter shows how the perspectives of book history can be applied to the study of travel writing. The chapter foregrounds the importance of attending to the practices and technologies of authorship and publishing in understanding the form, content and purpose of travel texts.
