Download or read book Bibliography and the Book Trades written by Hugh Amory and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Printing written by E. C. Bigmore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This three-volume bibliography of printing, published 1880-6, quickly became a classic reference work, and is still of value today.

Download or read book Printing in New Jersey 1754 1800 written by Joseph J. Felcone and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bibliography of Printing in America written by George Thomas Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of Books and Printing written by Paul A. Winckler and published by Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fifteenth Century English Books written by Edward Gordon Duff and published by [London] : Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1917 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Teaching Bibliography Textual Criticism and Book History written by Ann R Hawkins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a variety of approaches to incorporating discussions of book history or print culture into graduate and undergraduate classrooms. This work considers the book as a literary, historical, cultural, and aesthetic object. These essays are of interest to university teachers incorporating textual studies and research methods into their courses.

Download or read book Resources for College Libraries written by Marcus Elmore and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seven-volume set offers a core collection of hand-selected titles in 58 curriculum-specific subject areas. Volumes are organized into broad subject areas such as Humanities, Languages and Literature, History, Social Sciences and Professional Studies, Science and Technology, and Interdisciplinary and Area Studies. The seventh volume provides helpful cross-referencing indexes which explain the relationship between RCL subject taxonomy and LC ranges. New to this edition are the inclusion of interdisciplinary subject areas and the selection of electronic resources and web sites essential for undergraduate library collections. Non-book selections will be easily identified by a graphic indicator included in the item record. All selections will be assigned an audience level marker indicating whether the title is most appropriate for lower-division undergraduate, upper-division undergraduate, faculty, or general readership. Records will also include a notation if they previously appeared in BCL3 (Books for College Libraries, 1988) or have been reviewed by Choice.

Download or read book The Nature of the Book written by Adrian Johns and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 779 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas—commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."—Alberto Manguel, Washington Times "[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."—D. Graham Burnett, New Republic "A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."—Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."—John Sutherland, The Independent "Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."—Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement

Download or read book A New Introduction to Bibliography written by Philip Gaskell and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Invention of Printing written by Douglas Crawford McMurtrie and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Small Books for the Common Man written by John Meriton and published by Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the mid-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Nearly 800 titles described in detail, including histories, tales, verse collections, primers, alphabets, and allowing accurate identification and verification with other collections. Includes reproduced illustrations from all books described"--Provided by publisher.

Download or read book The Art and History of Book Printing written by and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1984-04-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this topical bibliography are 1,060 citations of books, theses, articles, and library, exhibit, and sales catalogs in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages. Topics include reference works, printers' manuals, machinery and materials, printers' marks, and a general history of book printing. Special attention is given to the printing of books in mathematics, medicine, music, religion, and science. Three separate sections cover Hebrew printing, maps, and forgery and fictitious imprints. Additional annotations for certain entries provide information on editions, special features, and other sources of information. Two classified checklists, supplementing the main bibliography, contain a selection of articles on writing, calligraphy, and typography. An author index includes authors, editors, revisers, and writers of annotations and introductions. A subject index provides access to information on the titles and annotations. Cross references facilitate the use of the indexes.

Download or read book A Bibliography of Printing written by C. W. H. Wyman and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China written by Cynthia J. Brokaw and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-03-07 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of books and the written word in Chinese society, the history of the book in China is a topic that has been little explored. This pioneering volume of essays, written by historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introduces the major issues in the social and cultural history of the book in late imperial China. Informed by many insights from the rich literature on the history of the Western book, these essays investigate the relationship between the manuscript and print culture; the emergence of urban and rural publishing centers; the expanding audience for books; the development of niche markets and specialized publishing of fiction, drama, non-Han texts, and genealogies; and more.

Download or read book Bibliographic written by Jason Godfrey and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographic: 100 Classic Graphic Design Books is a compilation of the best design books of the last 100 years. It covers a huge range of materialhistoric titles from pioneering type foundries to the best of recent monographs from today's leading studiosand provides a unique insight into the evolution of graphic design in thetwentieth century.

Download or read book A New Introduction to Bibliography written by Philip Gaskell and published by Winchester, UK : St. Paul's Bibliographies ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1972 by Oxford University Press. Reprinted with corrections by Oak Knoll Press/St. Paul's Bibliographies in 1995. Reprinted in 2000, 2002, 2006 & 2007"--T.p. verso.