Bibliography and the Book Trades : : Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England /

Bibliography and the Book Trades : : Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England / / Hugh Amory; ed. by David D. Hall.

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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 con...

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Amory, Hugh,
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Hall, David D.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2005
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 9 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Short Title List
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Trout and the Milk An Ethnobibliographical Essay
  • 2. "Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings": Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book
  • 3. ''A Bible and Other Books": Enumerating the Copies in Seventeenth-Century Essex County
  • 4. Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller
  • 5. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713
  • 6. A Boston Society Library: The Old South Church and Thomas Prince
  • 7. A Note on Statistics, or, What Do Our Imprint Bibliographies Mean by "Book"?
  • Index

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