Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKitterick, David John.

Series:

Library of the Written Word Series

Library of the Written Word Series ; v.147

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History.

Books.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (562 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

In an authoritative selection of essays on books, their manufacture and use in the pre-digital age, based on examination of thousands of volumes in libraries across the world, a leading book historian provides essential details of how to understand a world of print that is fast disappearing.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Figures and Tables

Part 1 Libraries

Chapter 1 Henry Bradshaw and M. F. A. G. Campbell: Some Further Correspondence

Chapter 2 Henry Bradshaw and J. W. Holtrop: Some Further Correspondence

Chapter 3 John Christopherson, Humanist and Benefactor

Chapter 4 Cardiff: an End or a Beginning?

Part 2 The Book Trade

Chapter 5 Customer, Reader and Bookbinder: Buying a Bible in 1630

Chapter 6 Thomas Osborne, Samuel Johnson and the Learned of Foreign Nations: a Forgotten Catalogue

Chapter 7 'Ovid with a Littleton': the Cost of English Books in the Early Seventeenth Century

Chapter 8 Books for Barbados and the British Atlantic Colonies in the Early Eighteenth Century: 'A Catalogue of Books to Be Sold by Mr. Zouch'

1 Barbados

2 Zouch's Catalogue

3 The Contents of the Catalogue

4 Beyond Barbados

5 The Missionary Societies and the Trade in Books

6 Missionaries and Tracts

7 Zouch's Later Career

8 A Note on Copies of the Catalogue

Part 3 Typography and Book Design

Chapter 9 A Type Specimen of Christoffel van Dijck?

Chapter 10 Bruce Rogers at Cambridge, 1917-19

Chapter 11 The Acceptable Face of Print

Chapter 12 Old Faces and New Acquaintances: Typography and the Association of Ideas

Chapter 13 What Is the Use of Books without Pictures? Empty Space in Some Early Printed Books

Chapter 14 How Can We Tell If People Noticed Changes in Book Design? Early Editions of the Imitatio Christi

1 The Imitatio Christi from Manuscript to Print

2 Format and Typography

3 English Innovations

4 Into the Seventeenth Century

5 In Conclusion

Further Reading

Part 4 Book Collecting and Scholarship.

Chapter 15 Women and Their Books in Seventeenth-Century England: the Case of Elizabeth Puckering

I

II

Iii

Chapter 16 Where Did Cambridge Undergraduates Get Their Books in the Nineteenth Century?

1 Libraries: College, University, Faculty

2 Buying and Selling

Chapter 17 Adding to the Family Library: an Englishman in Italy in the 1630s

Chapter 18 Publishing and Perishing in Classics: E. H. Barker and the Early Nineteenth-Century Book Trades

Chapter 19 The Hand in the Machine: Facsimiles, Libraries and the Politics of Scholarship

Chapter 20 Putting the Past on Show: Old Books and Communal Memory in the Nineteenth Century

1 Bibliophily: a Luxury, or a Public Pastime?

2 Cultural Memory and the History of Books

3 Belgium and National Identity

4 Dante, Bibliography and the Reunification of Italy

5 William Caxton and English Social Identity

6 The Museum: Presenting Memory to the World at Large

Part 5 Retrospective Bibliography

Chapter 21 'Not in STC': Opportunities and Challenges in the ESTC

Chapter 22 Bibliography, Population, and Statistics: a View from the West

1 Recent Interest: Limitations and Challenges

2 Measuring Evidence

3 Sources of Evidence

4 Survival: Measuring What?

5 Growth

6 East Asia: Parallels and Differences

Notes and Further Reading

Index

Back Cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: McKitterick, David John Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers

ISBN:

9789004760691

OCLC:

1587889510