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Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 2009-03-05 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131617588X |
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The years 1830–1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.
Author | : Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : |
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"The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."-- Publisher description.
Author | : David McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 813 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107668294 |
Download The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the fifteenth century. Using new technology in printing, paper-making and binding, publishers worked with authors and illustrators to meet ever-growing and more varied demands from a population seeking books at all price levels. The essays by leading book historians in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time. The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.
Author | : Richard Gameson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521866243 |
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The years 1830-1914 witnessed a revolution in the manufacture and use of books as great as that in the 15th century. The essays in this volume show how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time.
Author | : Michael Felix Suarez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 940 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : 9780511862250 |
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Vol. 3 presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557.
Author | : Richard Gameson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1076 |
Release | : 2019-09-19 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1316184277 |
Download The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 1, c.400–1100 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration; examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent; discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks; and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.
Author | : Michael F. Suarez, SJ |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1092 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107626805 |
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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.
Author | : Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 830 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781107698758 |
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This volume presents a collection of essays with an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. In this time of change the manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. This volume traces the transition and discerns patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand with particular emphasis on imports and links with the Continent.
Author | : Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Book industries and trade |
ISBN | : |
Download The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 1695-1830 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."-- Publisher description.
Author | : Joanne Shattock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521882885 |
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A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.