Forms, formats and the circulation of knowledge : : British printscape's innovations, 1688-1832 /

Forms, formats and the circulation of knowledge : : British printscape's innovations, 1688-1832 / / edited by Louisiane Ferlier, Bénédicte Miyamoto.

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. The transdisciplinary volume edited by Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédict...

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Superior document:Library of the written word ; Volume 83
TeilnehmendeR:
Miyamoto, Bénédicte,
Ferlier, Louisiane,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; Volume 83.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; Volume 64.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 The Shape of Knowledge
  • Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto
  • Part 1: [In] forming Professional Networks
  • 2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early-Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity
  • James Raven
  • 3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright
  • Jeffrey Hopes
  • 4 Entering into Copyright: Author-Publisher Transactions in the Stationers’ Company Records’
  • Rebecca Schoff Curtin
  • 5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • Isabella Alexander
  • 6 The Vauxhall Affray : Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print
  • Yvonne Cornish
  • Part 2: [Per] forming Knowledge in Print
  • 7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650–1800
  • Katherine Parker
  • 8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers
  • Craig Spence
  • 9 Compositors’ Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography
  • James P. Ascher
  • 10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books: The Remediation of The Beginning, Progress and End of Man into Metamorphosis, or a Transformation of Pictures: With Poetical Explanations for the Amusement of Children
  • Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
  • 11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus
  • David Duff
  • Bibliography of Secondary Sources
  • Index.

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