A Supplement to The Great Historical, Geographical, Genealogical and Poetical Dictionary: Being a Curious Miscellany of Sacred and Profane History. Containing, in Short, the Lives and Most Remarkable Actions of the Patriarchs, Judges, and Kings of the Jews; of the Apostles, Fathers, and Doctors of the Church; of Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, &c. ... Together with the Establishment and Progress Both of Religious and Military Orders, and the Lives of Their Founders. As Also, the Fabulous History of the Heathen Gods and Heroes. The Description of Empires, Kingdoms, Commonwealths, Provinces, Cities, Towns, Islands, Mountains and Other Considerable Places, Both of Ancient and Modern Geography; ... The Whole Being Full of Remarks and Curious Enquiries, for the Illustration of Several Difficulties in Theology, History, Chronology and Geography. Collected from the Best Historians, Chronologers and Lexicographers; ... But More Especially Out of Lewis Morery, D.D. His Eighth Edition Corrected and Enlarged by Monsieur Le Clerc; in Two Volumes in Folio


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Before the Word Was Queer


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This book uncovers how same-sex acts, desires, and identities have been represented in English dictionaries in Britain from the early modern to the interwar period. In doing so, it responds and contributes to established traditions and new trends in linguistics, queer theory, literary criticism, and the history of sexuality.




The Printed Picture


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Relief printing : woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving -- Intaglio and planographic printing : engraving, etching, mezzotint, and lithography -- Color printing : hand coloring and multiple-impression color -- Bits and pieces : modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors -- Early photography in silver : daguerreotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes -- Non-silver processes : carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others -- Modern photography : developing-out gelatin silver printing -- Color notes : primary colors and neutrality -- Color photography : separation-based processes and chromogenic prints -- Photography in ink : relief and intaglio printing : the letterpress halftone and gravure printing -- Photography in ink : planographic printing : collotype and photo offset lithography -- Digital processes : binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints -- Where do we go from here? : some questions about the future