From Compositors To Collectors
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From Compositors To Collectors
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Author : John Hinks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
From Compositors To Collectors written by John Hinks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publication, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the diverse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection over a long period, these essays highlight both continuities and changes in the book trade. Taken together, this collection offers considerable new insights into many facets of the book trade, ranging from creation to consumption. This newest addition to the Print Networks series includes nineteen essays from leading book history scholars, including Mariko Nagase, Daniel Cook, Stephen Brown, Brian Hillyard, Catherine Delafield, Rob Allen, Rachel Bower, Iain Beavan, and more. The "compositors" section covers everything from The Mayor of Quinborough, published in 1661, to My Name is Salma, published in 2007. Essays on "collectors" include Dr. James Fraser, Titus Wheatcroft, Sir Walter Scott, the USA Armed Services, and more. The book is illustrated throughout in black and white. Available in the UK from The British Library.
The Invention Of Printing A Collection Of Facts And Opinions Descriptive Of Early Prints And Playing Cards
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Author : Theodore Low De Vinne
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-06-18
The Invention Of Printing A Collection Of Facts And Opinions Descriptive Of Early Prints And Playing Cards written by Theodore Low De Vinne and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-18 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Before Blackwood S
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Author : Alex Benchimol
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Before Blackwood S written by Alex Benchimol and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
This collection of essays is the result of a major conference focusing specifically on the role of Scotland’s print culture in shaping the literature and politics of the long eighteenth century. In contrast to previous studies, this work treats Blackwood’s Magazine as the culmination of a long tradition rather than a starting point.
Charles Areskine S Library
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Author : Karen Baston
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Charles Areskine S Library written by Karen Baston and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with History categories.
In Charles Areskine’s Library, Karen Baston uses a detailed study of an eighteenth-century Scottish advocate’s private book collection to explore key themes in the Scottish Enlightenment including secularisation, modernisation, internationalisation, and the development of legal literature in Scotland. By exploring a surviving manuscript dated 1731that lists a Scottish lawyer’s library, Karen Baston demonstrates that the books Charles Areskine owned, used in practice, and read for pleasure embedded him in the intellectual culture that expanded in early eighteenth-century Scotland. Areskine and his fellow advocates emerged as scholarly and sociable gentlemen who led their nation. Lawyers were integral to and integrated with the Scottish society that allowed the Scottish Enlightenment to take root and flourish within Areskine’s lifetime.
John Donne And The Conway Papers
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Author : Daniel Starza Smith
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-10-30
John Donne And The Conway Papers written by Daniel Starza Smith and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
How and why did men and women send handwritten poetry, drama, and literary prose to their friends and social superiors in the seventeenth century-and what were the consequences of these communications? Within this culture of manuscript publication, why did John Donne (1572-1631), an author who attempted to limit the circulation of his works, become the most transcribed writer of his age? John Donne and the Conway Papers examines these questions in great detail. Daniel Starza Smith investigates a seventeenth-century archive, the Conway Papers, in order to explain the relationship between Donne and the archive's owners, the Conway family. Drawing on an enormous amount of primary material, he situates Donne's writings within the broader workings of manuscript circulation, from the moment a scribe identified a source text, through the process of transcription and onwards to the social ramifications of this literary circulation. John Donne and the Conway Papers offers the first full-length analysis of three generations of the Conway family between Elizabeth's succession and the end of the Civil War, explaining what the Conway Papers are and how they were amassed, how the archive came to contain a concentration of manuscript poetry by Donne, and what the significance of this fact is, in terms of seventeenth-century politics, patronage, and culture. Answers to these questions cast new light on the early transmission of Donne's verse and prose. Throughout, John Donne and the Conway Papers emphasizes the importance of Donne's closest friends and earliest readers—such as George Garrard, Rowland Woodward, and Sir Henry Goodere—in the dissemination of his poetry. Goodere in particular emerges as a key agent in the early circulation of Donne's verse, and this book offers the first sustained account of his literary activities.
The Book Collector
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Book Collector written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Bibliography categories.
Walter Scott S Books
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Author : J.H. Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-16
Walter Scott S Books written by J.H. Alexander and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Scott's Books is an approachable introduction to the Waverley Novels. Drawing on substantial research in Scott's intertextual sources, it offers a fresh approach to the existing readings where the thematic and theoretical are the norm. Avoiding jargon, and moving briskly, it tackles the vexed question of Scott's 'circumbendibus' style head on, suggesting that it is actually one of the most exciting aspects of his fiction: indeed, what Ian Duncan has called the 'elaborately literary narrative', at first sight a barrier, is in a sense what the novels are primarily 'about'. The book aims to show how inventive, witty, and entertaining Scott's richly allusive style is; how he keeps his varied readership on board with his own inexhaustible variety; and how he allows proponents of a wide range of positions to have their say, using a detached, ironic, but never cynical narrative voice to undermine the more rigid and inhumane rhetoric. The Introduction outlines this approach and sets the book in the context of earlier and current Scott criticism. It also deals with some practical issues, including forms of reference and the distinctive use of the term 'Authorial'. The four chapters are designed to zoom in progressively from the general to the particular. 'Resources' explores the printed material available to Scott in his library and gives an overview of the way he uses it in his fiction. 'Style' confronts objections to the 'circumbendibus' Scott and shows how his Ciceronian style with its penchant for polysyllables enables him to embrace a wide range of rhetoric relayed in a detached but not cynical Authorial voice. 'Strategies' explores how he keeps his very wide audience on board by a complex bonding between characters, readers, and Author, and stresses the extraordinary variety of exuberant inventiveness with which he handles intertextual allusions. 'Mottoes' examines the most remarkable of Scott's intertextual devices, the chapter epigraphs, bringing into play the approaches developed in the previous chapters. The brief concluding 'Envoi' moves out again to the widest possible perspective, suggesting how readers should now be able to move on to, or return to, the novels and the critical conversation, with an appreciation of the central importance of the ludic for an appreciation of Scott in a world once again threatened by inhumane and humorless rigidities.
A Collection Of Old English Customs
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Author : Henry Edwards
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-05-25
A Collection Of Old English Customs written by Henry Edwards and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-25 with categories.
Collecting Shakespeare
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Author : Stephen H. Grant
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2014-04-26
Collecting Shakespeare written by Stephen H. Grant and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-26 with History categories.
The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.
Balzac Ultimate Collection
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-10
Balzac Ultimate Collection written by Honoré de Balzac and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-10 with Fiction categories.
Honoré de Balzac's "BALZAC - Ultimate Collection" serves as a comprehensive anthology of the author's prolific works, encapsulating the rich tapestry of French society in the early 19th century. Balzac's distinctive literary style, characterized by keen psychological insight and intricate character development, offers a panoramic view of the social dynamics and class struggles of his time. The collection includes key novels from his monumental series "La Comédie Humaine", an ambitious project that traverses the lives of over a thousand characters, artfully intertwining their narratives to reveal the complexities of human motivations and societal structures. Balzac himself was a product of a rapidly changing France, navigating the turbulence of the Restoration and the July Monarchy. His experiences as a failed businessman, coupled with his deep immersion in Parisian life as a struggling writer, provided him with a wealth of material that informed his literary creations. His relentless work ethic and desire to portray the truth of his era are evident throughout this collection, showcasing the stark realities and vibrant personalities emerging from the backdrop of 19th-century France. This ultimate collection is indispensable for both scholars and enthusiasts of classic literature. It not only illuminates the genius of Balzac's storytelling but invites readers to explore the intricacies of human nature and society that resonate even today. For anyone seeking a profound understanding of literary realism and the socio-cultural fabric of its time, Balzac's works serve as a timeless testament to the art of narrative.