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Author: Shirley Granahan Publisher: ABDO ISBN: 9781604537642 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 116
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Chronicles the life of the eighteenth-century English publisher and bookseller who was the first to print and sell books especially for children.
Author: James Raven Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300122616 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 513
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In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspapers. This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam. James Raven presents a lively and original account of the English book trade and the printers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs who promoted its development. Viewing print and book culture through the lens of commerce, Raven offers a new interpretation of the genesis of literature and literary commerce in England. He draws on extensive archival sources to reconstruct the successes and failures of those involved in the book trade—a cast of heroes and heroines, villains, and rogues. And, through groundbreaking investigations of neglected aspects of book-trade history, Raven thoroughly revises our understanding of the massive popularization of the book and the dramatic expansion of its markets over the centuries.
Author: Christine Y. Ferdinand Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780198206521 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 284
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Behind these news networks was the entrepreneurial spirit of Benjamin Collins, a figure of national importance, who set up Salisbury's first bank, established newspapers in London and the provinces, wrote children's books with John Newbery, and whose publishing interests brought him into contact with the literary and commercial life of London. This fascinating study of the information networks of eighteenth-century provincial life will be interest to literary students and biographers as well as historians.
Author: Michelle J. Smith Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 1399506668 Category : Languages : en Pages : 697
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Since the publication of the first children's periodical in the 1750s, magazines have been an affordable and accessible way for children to read and form virtual communities. Despite the range of children's periodicals that exist, they have not been studied to the same extent as children's literature. The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals marks the first major history of magazines for young people from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. Bringing together periodicals from Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand and India, this book explores the roles of gender, race and national identity in the construction of children as readers and writers. It provides new insights both into how child readers shaped the magazines they read and how magazines have encouraged children to view themselves as political and world subjects.
Author: Charles Welsh
Author: Charles Welsh
Author: Shirley Granahan
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Author: Frank Arthur Mumby
Author: James Raven
Author: Christine Y. Ferdinand
Author: Charles Welsh
Author: Michelle J. Smith
Author: Pratt Institute. Free Library
Author: Pratt Institute. Library