Author: Stuart Bennett
Publisher: New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Stuart Bennett's landmark study is the first illustrated guide to a complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or at most in a plain paper wrapper." This view is still generally accepted. Bennett, however, presents new documentary and visual evidence that books were predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers. Over two hundred color illustrations show what these bindings looked like, and how their styles evolved."--BOOK JACKET.
Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800
Author: Stuart Bennett
Publisher: New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Stuart Bennett's landmark study is the first illustrated guide to a complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or at most in a plain paper wrapper." This view is still generally accepted. Bennett, however, presents new documentary and visual evidence that books were predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers. Over two hundred color illustrations show what these bindings looked like, and how their styles evolved."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press
ISBN:
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Stuart Bennett's landmark study is the first illustrated guide to a complex and controversial subject. In 1930, in The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, Michael Sadleir declared that "the bookseller-publisher of the decades from 1730 to 1770 issued his books either in loose quires, or stitched, or at most in a plain paper wrapper." This view is still generally accepted. Bennett, however, presents new documentary and visual evidence that books were predominantly sold ready-bound in sheep, calf, and goat as well as boards and wrappers. Over two hundred color illustrations show what these bindings looked like, and how their styles evolved."--BOOK JACKET.
Trade Bookbinding in the British Isles, 1660-1800 by Stuart Bennett
The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Early Modern Book in England
Author: Adam Smyth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198846231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198846231
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a stimulating account of the very newest work in the field, and an exploration of how new thinking might develop. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume combines lucidity, scholarly expertise, intellectual precision, and an imaginative structure that will enable contributors to show why the history of the book matters. This volume analyses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, and also considers critically how we can talk about the history of book"--
The Acquisition of Books by Chetham's Library, 1655-1700
Author: Matthew Yeo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004206655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Drawing on recent debates about the methods of book history, this book explores in detail the foundation and development of Chetham's Library, in Manchester, from its foundation in 1655 until the end of the seventeenth century.
Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London
Author: Richard Coulton
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137411961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and consumers. Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London will appeal to readers interested in the connected histories of metropolitan life, crime, and the book in this period, and in the uses of digital resources in humanities research.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137411961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
This study offers an authoritative and readable account of the hidden history of book theft in eighteenth-century London. It exploits a rich primary source, the compelling narratives of crime contained in the digitised Proceedings of the Old Bailey. The authors explain how cases of book theft came to court, and how in the ensuing trials the nature of the book itself became a question for legal debate. They assess the motives which led Londoners to steal books and the methods they employed in thefts from households and booksellers. Finally, the authors ask what the Proceedings tells us about the social ownership of books, and how the phenomenon of book theft differently affected book producers and consumers. Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London will appeal to readers interested in the connected histories of metropolitan life, crime, and the book in this period, and in the uses of digital resources in humanities research.
The Production of Books in England 1350-1500
Author: Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.
Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade
Author: Sarah Neville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316515990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In the early modern herbal, Sarah Neville finds a captivating example of how Renaissance print culture shaped scientific authority.
Bound to Read
Author: Jeffrey Todd Knight
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245075
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245075
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.
Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Gerald Egan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113751826X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
One view of the author in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain held that poetic genius could reside in the lady or gentleman of fashion. Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century examines this cultural trope of genius-as-fashionista by applying an innovative mix of approaches—book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress—to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, Fashioning Authorship looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 113751826X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
One view of the author in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain held that poetic genius could reside in the lady or gentleman of fashion. Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth Century examines this cultural trope of genius-as-fashionista by applying an innovative mix of approaches—book history, Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and material analyses of fashions in books and in dress—to specific editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its material analyses of these books, Fashioning Authorship looks closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth, and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity, genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of celebrity in our own cultural moment.
A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558
Author: Vincent Gillespie
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.