Forms, formats and the circulation of knowledge : British printscape's innovations, 1688-1832 / edited by Louisiane Ferlier, Bénédicte Miyamoto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Miyamoto, Bénédicte, editor.

Ferlier, Louisiane, editor.

Series:

Library of the written word ; Volume 83.

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 64.

Library of the written word ; Volume 83

Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 64

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Book industries and trade--Great Britain--History.

Book industries and trade.

Great Britain--Intellectual life.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. The transdisciplinary volume edited by Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in 11 essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 The Shape of Knowledge

Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto

Part 1: [In] forming Professional Networks

2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early-Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity

James Raven

3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright

Jeffrey Hopes

4 Entering into Copyright: Author-Publisher Transactions in the Stationers’ Company Records’

Rebecca Schoff Curtin

5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Isabella Alexander

6 The Vauxhall Affray : Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print

Yvonne Cornish

Part 2: [Per] forming Knowledge in Print

7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650–1800

Katherine Parker

8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers

Craig Spence

9 Compositors’ Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography

James P. Ascher

10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books: The Remediation of The Beginning, Progress and End of Man into Metamorphosis, or a Transformation of Pictures: With Poetical Explanations for the Amusement of Children

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus

David Duff

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43367-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004433670 DOI