This title was first published in 2000: The essays in this collection re-examine the phenomenon of "free print" in print culture. By focusing on free print the volume offers perspectives in the cultural history of textual transmission from the early-18th century to the mid-20th century.

1 Print for Free: Unsolicited Literature in Comparative Perspective, 2 A Free Transmission of Knowledge: The Literary Gifts and Reception of an Eighteenth-Century Scholar, 3 Free Flattery or Servile Tribute? Oxford and Cambridge Commemorative Poetry in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, 4 'The Abolition Blunderbuss': Free Publishing and British Abolition Propaganda, 1780-1838, 5 Free for All: Broadsides on the Streets of New Orleans, 1764-1900, 6 The Nineteenth-Century Bible Society and 'The Evil of Gratuitous Distribution' , 7 Sent to the Wilderness: Mission Literature in Colonial America, 8 Between Text and Reader: The Experience of Christian Missionaries in Bengal, 1800-50, 9 Limits to Propaganda: Soviet Power and the Peasant reader in the 1920s, 10 Air-Borne Culture: Propaganda Leaflets over Occupied France in the Second World War, 11 Mau M au's War of Words: The Battle of the Pamphlets. Index.