Author: Henry BEADNELLPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Guide to Typography, Literary and Practical; Or, the Reader's Handbook and the Compositor's Vade-mecum
Blind Impressions
Author: Joseph A. DanePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812208692
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."—From the Introduction What is a book in the study of print culture? For the scholar of material texts, it is not only a singular copy carrying the unique traces of printing and preservation efforts, or an edition, repeated and repeatable, or a vehicle for ideas to be abstracted from the physical copy. But when the bibliographer situates a book copy within the methods of book history, Joseph A. Dane contends, it is the known set of assumptions which govern the discipline that bibliographic arguments privilege, repeat, or challenge. "Book history," he writes, "is us." In Blind Impressions, Dane reexamines the field of material book history by questioning its most basic assumptions and definitions. How is print defined? What are the limits of printing history? What constitutes evidence? His concluding section takes form as a series of short studies in theme and variation, considering such matters as two-color printing, the composing stick used by hand-press printers, the bibliographical status of book fragments, and the function of scholarly illustration in the Digital Age. Meticulously detailed, deeply learned, and often contrarian, Blind Impressions is a bracing critique of the way scholars define and solve problems.
Subject List of Works on the Fine and Graphic Arts
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Patent Office Library Series
Author: Great Britain. Patent Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
A Handy-book about Books
Author: John PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Sections on bibliography, chronology, useful receipts, typographical gazetter, booksellers' directory, dictionary of terms, etc.
Essays and Reviews
Author: Victor SheaPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813918693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Essays and Reviews is a collection of seven articles that appeared in 1860, sparking a Victorian culture war that lasted for at least a decade. With pieces written by such prominent Oxford and Cambridge intellectuals as Benjamin Jowett, Mark Pattison, Baden Powell, and Frederick Temple (later archbishop of Canterbury), the volume engaged the relations between religious faith and current topics of the day in education, the classics, theology, science, history, literature, biblical studies, hermeneutics, philology, politics, and philosophy. Upon publication, the church, the university, the press, the government, and the courts, both ecclesiastical and secular, joined in an intense dispute. The book signaled an intellectual and religious crisis, raised influential issues of free speech, and questioned the authority and control of the Anglican Church in Victorian society. The collection became a best-seller and led to three sensational heresy trials. Although many historians and literary critics have identified Essays and Reviews as a pivotal text of high Victorianism, until now it has been almost inaccessible to modern readers. This first critical edition, edited by Victor Shea and William Whitla, provides extensive annotation to map the various positions on the controversies that the book provoked. The editors place the volume in its complex social context and supply commentary, background materials, composition and publishing history, textual notes, and a broad range of new supporting documents, including material from the trials, manifestos, satires, and contemporary illustrations. Not only does such an annotated critical edition of Essays and Reviews indicate the impact that the volume had on Victorian society; it also sheds light on our own contemporary cultural institutions and controversies.
A Bibliography of Printing
Author: E. C. BigmorePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108074324
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
This three-volume bibliography of printing, published 1880-6, quickly became a classic reference work, and is still of value today.
A Bibliography of Printing with Notes & Illustrations
Author: Edward C. BigmoreWomen Making News
Author: Michelle Elizabeth TusanPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 025203015X
Category : Press and politics
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Women Making News tells two stories: first, it examines alternative print-based political cultures that women developed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and second, it explores how British female subjects themselves forged a wide range of new political identities through the pages of "their press."Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, a rising cohort of female editors and journalists created a new genre of political journal they proclaimed to be both "for and by women," which continued until the 1930s. The development of new specialized periodicals, such as Women's Penny Paper, Votes for Women, Women's Gazette, and Shafts, fostered the proliferation of diverse political agendas aimed at re-imagining women's status in society. At the same time, the institutional infrastructure of the women's press provided new opportunities for women in nontraditional employments.Tusan's approach employs social and cultural historical analysis in the reading of popular printed texts, as well as rare and previously unpublished personal correspondence and business records from archives throughout Britain. Women Making News is the first book-length study to uncover the important relationship between print culture and the gender politics that provided a vehicle for women's mobilization in the political culture of modern Britain.Michelle Tusan is an assistant professor of British history at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.A volume in The History of Communication series, edited by Robert W. McChesney and John C. Nerone
The Literature of Printing
Author: Richard March HoePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description