Publishing Plates : : Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture / / Jeffrey M. Makala.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
• VerfasserIn: Makala, Jeffrey M.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Penn State Series in the History of the Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping—the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type—fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 The Development and Spread of Stereotyping in Europe and North America
• 2 Mathew Carey and the Family Bible Marketplace
• 3 The American Bible Society and the Possibilities of Large-Scale Printing
• 4 Material Texts: Trade Sales, Reprinting, and the Book Trades
• 5 Stereotyping in Language, Literature, and Material Culture
• Epilogue: Abraham Hart and Nineteenth-Century Changes in the Printing Trades
• Appendix A: First Uses of Stereotype Plates in the United States, by Date and Location
• Appendix B: “Directions for Repairing Plates,” ca. 1820
• Appendix C: Inventory of Stereotype Plates Belonging to the American Bible Society, 1829
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index