International standard book number
9781107626805
Shelfmark
Qc.2
Title
The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume 5, 1695-1830 / edited by Michael F. Suarez and Michael L. Turner.
Edition
1st paperback ed.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical description
xxvi, 1020 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., facsims. ; 23 cm.
Language
English.
Note
First published: 2009.
Note
Reprinted 2021.
Note
Publisher's paperback covers.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction / The quantity and nature of printed matter -- Towards a bibliometric analysis of the surviving record, 1701-1800 / Printed ephemera / Economic, legal and cultural contexts -- -- The book as a commodity / Copyright, authors and censorship / The rise of the professional author? / Women and print: readers, writers and the market / The technologies and aesthetics of book production -- The technologies of printing / The industrialization of the paper trade / A year's work in the London printing house of the Bowyers / Book illustration and the world of prints / The morphology of the page / Bookbinding in the eighteenth century / The book trade and its markets -- London and the central sites of the English book trade / Personnel within the London book trades: evidence from the Stationers' Company / The English provincial book trade: evidence from the British book trade index / The Scottish book trade / The Irish trade / Richard Francklin: a controversial publisher, bookseller and printer, 1718-1765 / The Longmans and the book trade, c.1730-1830 / London newspapers / Newspapers and the sale of books in the provinces / British commercial and financial journalism before 1800 / Distribution -- the case of William Tayler / Periodicals and the trade, 1695-1780 / Periodicals and serial publications, 1780-1830 / Continental imports to Britain, 1695-1740 / The English book on the Continent / The British book in North America / The British book in India / Religious publishing / The Bible trade / The publishing and distribution of religious books / Book reviewing / Publishing contemporary English literature, 1695-1774 / British literature, 1774-1830 / Scholarly editing: patristics, classical literature and Shakespeare / The reprint trade / Collecting and the antiquarian book trade / The Stationers' Company and the almanack trade / Children's books and school-books / Music / Maps, charts and atlases in Britain, 1690-1830 / Enlarging the prospects of happiness: travel reading and travel writing / Law books / Philosophical books / Scientific and medical books, 1695-1780 / Scientific and medical books, 1780-1830 / 'Radical publishing' / Mining the archive: a guide to present and future book-historical research resources / Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- Michael Twyman -- James Raven -- Mark Rose -- Dustin Griffin -- Isobel Grundy -- James Mosley -- John Bidwell -- Keith Maslen -- Tim Clayton -- Nicolas Barker -- Nicolas Pickwoad -- James Raven -- Michael Turner -- Maureen Bell and John Hinks -- Iain Beavan and Warren McDougall -- Charles Benson -- James J. Caudle -- Asa Briggs -- Michael Harris -- C.J. Ferdinand -- John J. McCusker -- Michael Turner -- James Tierney -- Brian Maidment -- P.G. Hoftijzer and O.S. Lankhorst -- Bernhard Fabian and Marie-Luise Speickermann -- James N. Green -- Graham Shaw -- Isabel Rivers -- B.J. McMullin -- voluntary associations: from the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge to the British and Foreign Bible Society / Scott Mandelbrote -- Antonia Forster -- Michael F. Suarez S.J. -- Kathyrn Sutherland -- Marcus Walsh -- Thomas F. Bonnell -- Richard Landon -- Robin Myers -- Andrea Immel -- David G. Hunter -- Yolande Hodson -- Shef Rogers -- Wilfrid Prest -- John Valdimir Price -- Alice Walters -- Jonathan R. Topham -- Marcus Wood -- Michael F. Suarez S.J.
Summary, etc.
Summary: 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.
Subject
Books Great Britain History 18th century.
Subject
Books Great Britain History 19th century.
Subject
Book industries and trade Great Britain History 18th century.
Subject
Book industries and trade Great Britain History 19th century.
Added entry--name
Suarez, Michael F. editor.
Added entry--name
Turner, Michael L. editor.
Added entry--name
Cambridge University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B53123