Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The New Town and Country Almanack,
Author: Town and Country Almanack for the Year M.DCC.LXXXV.
Author: The Town and Country Almanack
Author: The Town and Country Almanack for 1790
Author: The Town and Country Almanack for 1796
Author: The Town and Country Almanack for 1791
Author: The Town and Country Almanack for 1792
Author: The Town and Country Almanack for 1797
Author: The Press and the People
Author: Adam FoxPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198791291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the development of the Scottish book trade in general and the production of slight and popular texts in particular. Focusing on the means by which these works reached a wide audience, it illuminates the nature of their circulation in both urban and rural contexts. Specific chapters examine single-sheet imprints such as ballads and gallows speeches, newssheets and advertisements, as well as the little pamphlets that contained almanacs and devotional works, stories and songs. The study demonstrates just how much more of this literature was once printed than now survives and argues that Scotland had a much larger market for such material than has been appreciated hitherto. By illustrating the ways in which Scottish printers combined well-known titles from England with a distinctive repertoire of their own, The Press and the People transforms our understanding of popular culture in early modern Scotland and Britain more widely.
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description