Contributor
Suarez, Michael F., 1960- editor.
ImprintCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description1 online resource (xxvi, 1020 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Note:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2015).
Note:Introduction / Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- The quantity and nature of printed matter -- Towards a bibliometric analysis of the surviving record, 1701-1800 / Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- Printed ephemera / Michael Twyman -- Economic, legal and cultural contexts -- -- The book as a commodity / James Raven -- Copyright, authors and censorship / Mark Rose -- The rise of the professional author? / Dustin Griffin -- Women and print: readers, writers and the market / Isobel Grundy -- The technologies and aesthetics of book production -- The technologies of printing / James Mosley -- The industrialization of the paper trade / John Bidwell -- A year's work in the London printing house of the Bowyers / Keith Maslen -- Book illustration and the world of prints / Tim Clayton -- The morphology of the page / Nicolas Barker -- Bookbinding in the eighteenth century / Nicolas Pickwoad -- The book trade and its markets -- London and the central sites of the English book trade / James Raven -- Personnel within the London book trades: evidence from the Stationers' Company / Michael Turner -- The English provincial book trade: evidence from the British book trade index / Maureen Bell and John Hinks -- The Scottish book trade / Iain Beavan and Warren McDougall -- The Irish trade / Charles Benson -- Richard Francklin: a controversial publisher, bookseller and printer, 1718-1765 / James J. Caudle -- The Longmans and the book trade, c.1730-1830 / Asa Briggs -- London newspapers / Michael Harris -- Newspapers and the sale of books in the provinces / C.J. Ferdinand -- British commercial and financial journalism before 1800 / John J. McCusker -- Distribution -- the case of William Tayler / Michael Turner -- Periodicals and the trade, 1695-1780 / James Tierney -- Periodicals and serial publications, 1780-1830 / Brian Maidment -- Continental imports to Britain, 1695-1740 / P.G. Hoftijzer and O.S. Lankhorst -- The English book on the Continent / Bernhard Fabian and Marie-Luise Speickermann -- The British book in North America / James N. Green -- The British book in India / Graham Shaw -- Religious publishing / Isabel Rivers -- The Bible trade / B.J. McMullin -- The publishing and distribution of religious books / voluntary associations: from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to the British and Foreign Bible Society / Scott Mandelbrote -- Book reviewing / Antonia Forster -- Publishing contemporary English literature, 1695-1774 / Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- British literature, 1774-1830 / Kathyrn Sutherland -- Scholarly editing: patristics, classical literature and Shakespeare / Marcus Walsh -- The reprint trade / Thomas F. Bonnell -- Collecting and the antiquarian book trade / Richard Landon -- The Stationers' Company and the almanack trade / Robin Myers -- Children's books and school-books / Andrea Immel -- Music / David G. Hunter -- Maps, charts and atlases in Britain, 1690-1830 / Yolande Hodson -- Enlarging the prospects of happiness: travel reading and travel writing / Shef Rogers -- Law books / Wilfrid Prest -- Philosophical books / John Valdimir Price -- Scientific and medical books, 1695-1780 / Alice Walters -- Scientific and medical books, 1780-1830 / Jonathan R. Topham -- 'Radical publishing' / Marcus Wood -- Mining the archive: a guide to present and future book-historical research resources / Michael F. Suarez S.J.
Note:This volume covers the history of printing and publishing from the lapse of government licensing of printed works in 1695 to the development of publishing as a specialist commercial undertaking and the industrialization of book production around 1830. During this period, literacy rose and the world of print became an integral part of everyday life, a phenomenon that had profound effects on politics and commerce, on literature and cultural identity, on education and the dissemination of practical knowledge. Written by a distinguished international team of experts, this study examines print culture from all angles: readers and authors, publishers and booksellers; books, newspapers and periodicals; social places and networks for reading; new genres (children's books, the novel); the growth of specialist markets; and British book exports, especially to the colonies. Interdisciplinary in its perspective, this book will be an important scholarly resource for many years to come.
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