Images and Texts: Their Production and Distribution in the 18th and 19th Centuries: no. 1 (Print Networks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1873040482 ISBN 13: 9781873040485

Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1997

Synopsis

Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Page block head is lightly tanned and foxed. Pages are clear and unmarked throughout. LW

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Synopsis

Over the last three decades, academic and popular interest in the social history of Britain outside London (including the "colonies") has transformed the study of the history of the book into a scholarly discipline. This volume, the first in a series, comes from the Fourteenth Annual Seminar on the British Book Trade. The series is intended to record the very varied research in progress in Britain and overseas into the production, distribution and use of books and allied material. The papers presented here demonstrate the breadth of the field, but also its essential unity. Newspapers and book clubs, chapbooks and printing practice are all common elements of the book trade throughout Britain. The contributors deal with several aspects of print distribution and readership, as well as the distribution of images which are often as important as the texts they illustrate. The vast outpourings of books, chapbooks, street literature, newspapers and ephemeral jobbing work points to a far greater degree of literacy at all levels of society than is often held to be the case.

Edition details

• Publisher: St Paul's Bibliographies
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1873040482
• ISBN 13: 9781873040485
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Isaac Peter C.G., McKay Barry