Download or read book Memorial of the Printers and Booksellers of Glasgow Most Humbly Addressed to the Honourable the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament written by and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial of the Printers and Booksellers of Glasgow Most Humbly Addressed to the Honourable the House of Commons Assembled in Parliament Ocassioned by a Petition Given in by the Booksellers of London for a New Act to Lengthen Out the Monopoly Further Than the Act of Queen Anne written by and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Most Disreputable Trade written by Thomas F. Bonnell and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics. Bonnell explores the origins of this phenomenon, analysing more than a dozen multi-volume poetry collections that sprang from the British press over the next half century. Why such collections flourished so quickly, who published them, what forms they assumed, how they were marketed and advertised, how they initiated their readers into the rites of mass-market consumerism, and what role they played in the construction of a national literature are all questions central to the study. The collections played out against an epic battle over copyright law, and involved fierce contention for market share in the 'classics' among rival publishers. It brought despair to the most powerful of London printers, William Strahan, who prophesied that competition of this nature would ruin bookselling, turning it into 'the most pitiful, beggarly, precarious, unprofitable, and disreputable Trade in Britain'. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets were part of such a collection, dubbed 'Johnson's Poets'. The third edition of this collection, published in 1810, brought the national project to its high water mark: it contained 129 poets, plus extensive translations from the Greek and Roman classics. By this point, all the features that characterize modern series of vernacular classics had been established, and never since has such an ambitious expression of the poetic canon been repeated, as Bonnell shows by peering forward into the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on work with archival materials, newspapers, handbills, prospectuses, and above all the books themselves, Bonnell's findings shed light on all aspects of the book trade. Valuable bibliographical data is presented regarding every collection, forming an indispensable resource for future work on the history of the English poetry canon.

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Download or read book Book History written by Ezra Greenspan and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1998-09-30 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.

Download or read book Memorial and Representation of the University of Glasgow against a petition of several booksellers in London and Westminster presented to the House of Commons on the 16th December 1812 Signed James Couper Vice Rector With Note connected with what is stated in the memorial written by University of Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Glasgow School Board Memorial Copy of the Memorial from the School Board of the City of Glasgow to the Secretary of State for the Home Department Dated 21 June 1880 Urging that Means be Taken for Preserving Educational Endowments Bequeathed for the Benefit of Poor Children Or Poor Parents and Applying the Same in the Interest of the Classes to Whom They Were Originally Bequeathed written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial of the Letterpress Printers of Glasgow to Their Employers written by Typographical Society (Glasgow) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: