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Extracting Publishing Data from the English Catalogue of Books Cover

Extracting Publishing Data from the English Catalogue of Books

Open Access
|Mar 2026

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

A portion of a page from the 1912 ECB.

Figure 2

Entries from the 1912 ECB with publisher name highlighted in purple.

Figure 3

Plot of top publishers in the ECB by number of publications, 1912–22.

Figure 4

Plot of top authors in the ECB by number of publications, 1912–22.

Figure 5

Plot of publications over time by selected authors, ECB 1912–1922.

Figure 6

Advertisement for books by Nat Gould included in the 1917 issue of the ECB.

Figure 7

Plot of top book formats by number of publications in ECB, 1912–1922.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.499 | Journal eISSN: 2059-481X
Language: English
Submitted on: Dec 18, 2025
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Accepted on: Feb 20, 2026
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Published on: Mar 26, 2026
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2026 Anna Preus, Siddharth Bhogra, John Carlyle, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.