Printing in New Jersey, 1754-1800
Author : Joseph J. Felcone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Early printed books
ISBN : 9781929545667
Author : Joseph J. Felcone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Early printed books
ISBN : 9781929545667
Author : Roger Eliot Stoddard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 833 pages
File Size : 50,90 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 027105221X
"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Peter W. M. Blayney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108837417
A groundbreaking new history of the origins and evolution of the Anglican liturgy which transforms understanding of the English Reformation.
Author : Hugh Amory
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812203909
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.
Author : George Thomas Tanselle
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Bibliography, Critical
ISBN : 9781883631192
"This book offers a comprehensive guide to descriptive bibliography--the activity of describing books as physical objects. The function of descriptive bibliography is to provide detailed historical accounts of the varied material forms in which texts have been transmitted and to show the relationships among those examples that claim to carry texts of the same work. The first part of this book contains five essays on general topics: an introduction to the field and its history; its relation to library cataloguing; the concept of ideal copy; the meanings of edition, impression, issue, and state; and tolerances in reporting details. The second part covers more specific subjects: transcription and collation; format; paper; typography and layout; typesetting and presswork; non-letterpress material; publishers' bindings, endpapers, and jackets; and overall arrangement. At the end is an appendix containing a sample description with detailed commentary, followed by a record of the literature of descriptive bibliography"--
Author : Adrian Johns
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 779 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226401235
In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas—commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."—Alberto Manguel, Washington Times "[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."—D. Graham Burnett, New Republic "A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."—John Sutherland, The Independent "Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."—Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement
Author : American Medical Association
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 14,87 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Authorship
ISBN :
Author : E. C. Bigmore
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 1980-09-30
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780521299558
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
Author : Joseph Loewenstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2010-02-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0226490416
The Author's Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for modern copyright. Along the way he demonstrates that the culture of books, including the idea of the author, is intimately tied to the practical trade of publishing those books. As Loewenstein shows, copyright is a form of monopoly that developed alongside a range of related protections such as commercial trusts, manufacturing patents, and censorship, and cannot be understood apart from them. The regulation of the press pitted competing interests and rival monopolistic structures against one another—guildmembers and nonprofessionals, printers and booksellers, authors and publishers. These struggles, in turn, crucially shaped the literary and intellectual practices of early modern authors, as well as early capitalist economic organization. With its probing look at the origins of modern copyright, The Author's Due will prove to be a watershed for historians, literary critics, and legal scholars alike.