From compositors to collectors : essays on book-trade history / edited by John Hinks & Matthew Day.
Edition:
First edition.
Published / Created:
New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; 2012.London : The British Library, 2012.
Physical Description:
xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The publication of The Mayor of Quinborough (1661) and the printer's identity / Mariko Nagase -- Generally very tedious, often trifling : promoting eighteenth-century travel collections / Matthew Day -- Labor ipse voluptas : John Nichols's Swiftiana / Daniel Cook -- Pirates, editors, and readers : how distribution rewrote William Smellie's Philosophy of natural history / Stephen W. Brown -- Thomas Ruddiman : librarian, publisher, printer and collector / Brian Hillyard -- The poet and his publishers : shaping Tennyson's public image / Jim Cheshire -- Text in context : the law and the lady and the graphic / Catherine Delafield -- Boz versus Dickens : paratext, pseudonyms and serialization in the Victorian literary marketplace / Rob Allen -- The operation of literary institutions in the construction of national literary aesthetics in Fadia Faqir's My name is Salma (2007) / Rachel Bower -- La conquest du sang real : Edward, Second Viscount Conway's quest for books / Daniel Starza Smith -- Who was Dr James Fraser of Chelsea? / Iain Beavan -- Titus Wheatcroft : an eighteenth-century reader and his manuscripts / Maureen Bell -- Singing by the book : eighteenth-century Scottish songbooks, freemasonry, and Burns / Stephen W. Brown -- The sale of James West's library in 1773 / William Noblett -- The Linen Hall Library : provincial-metropolitan connections in the late eighteenth century / S.C. Arndt -- Was Sir Walter Scott a bibliomaniac? / Lindsay Levy -- Several tons of books : the creation, travels and rediscovery of Thomas Cassidy's recusant library / Joseph Marshall -- Love, blood, and teddy bears : twopenny libraries, parliament, and the law of retail trade in the 1930s / K.A. Manley -- My own small private library : USA Armed Services editions and the culture of collecting / Helen Smith.
Subject Terms:
Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History. | Book industries and trade -- History. | Printing -- History. | Authors and publishers -- History. | Book collectors -- History. | Book collecting -- History. | Libraries -- History. | Books and reading -- History.
Contributors:
Hinks, John, 1946- editor of compilation. | Day, Matthew, 1968- editor of compilation.