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From compositors to collectors : essays on book-trade history / edited by John Hinks & Matthew Day.

Van Pelt Library Z325 .F76 2012
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Hinks, John, 1946-2024, editor.
Day, Matthew, 1968- editor.
Series:
Print networks
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History.
Book industries and trade.
Book collecting.
History.
Book collectors.
Authors and publishers.
Great Britain.
Book industries and trade--History.
Printing--History.
Printing.
Authors and publishers--History.
Book collectors--History.
Book collecting--History.
Libraries--History.
Libraries.
Books and reading--History.
Books and reading.
Physical Description:
xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : The British Library, 2012.
Summary:
"A collection of nineteen essays that trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. Examines continuities and changes in the book trade and is illustrated in black and white. The eleventh volume of the Print Networks series"--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The publication of The Mayor of Quinborough (1661) and the printer's identity / Mariko Nagase
Generally very tedious, often trifling : promoting eighteenth-century travel collections / Matthew Day
Labor ipse voluptas : John Nichols's Swiftiana / Daniel Cook
Pirates, editors, and readers : how distribution rewrote William Smellie's Philosophy of natural history / Stephen W. Brown
Thomas Ruddiman : librarian, publisher, printer and collector / Brian Hillyard
The poet and his publishers : shaping Tennyson's public image / Jim Cheshire
Text in context : the law and the lady and the graphic / Catherine Delafield
Boz versus Dickens : paratext, pseudonyms and serialization in the Victorian literary marketplace / Rob Allen
The operation of literary institutions in the construction of national literary aesthetics in Fadia Faqir's My name is Salma (2007) / Rachel Bower
La conquest du sang real : Edward, Second Viscount Conway's quest for books / Daniel Starza Smith
Who was Dr James Fraser of Chelsea? / Iain Beavan
Titus Wheatcroft : an eighteenth-century reader and his manuscripts / Maureen Bell
Singing by the book : eighteenth-century Scottish songbooks, freemasonry, and Burns / Stephen W. Brown
The sale of James West's library in 1773 / William Noblett
The Linen Hall Library : provincial-metropolitan connections in the late eighteenth century / S.C. Arndt
Was Sir Walter Scott a bibliomaniac? / Lindsay Levy
Several tons of books : the creation, travels and rediscovery of Thomas Cassidy's recusant library / Joseph Marshall
Love, blood, and teddy bears : twopenny libraries, parliament, and the law of retail trade in the 1930s / K.A. Manley
My own small private library : USA Armed Services editions and the culture of collecting / Helen Smith.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781584563013
158456301X
OCLC:
769763881

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