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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:23737373
Author : Samuel Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN67PY
Author : Samuel Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0371185149
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : Samuel Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : London (England)
ISBN : ONB:+Z200834101
Author : Brian Gee,edited by Anita McConnell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317133308
Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.
Author : Graham Jefcoate
Publisher : Georg Olms Verlag
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783487158402
In den Jahren nach den Napoleonischen Kriegen gewann der in Bremen geborene John Henry Bohte (1784–1824) als Buchverkäufer und Verleger mit einem in London angesiedelten Import/Export-Geschäft und einer Präsenz in Leipzig schnell an Ansehen. Anfang 1813 eröffnete Bohte als noch Zwanzigjähriger seinen Laden in der York Street, Covent Garden. Er spezialisierte sich auf den Import deutscher Bücher und deutscher Ausgaben der griechischen und römischen Klassiker, vereinigte sein Einzelhandelsgeschäft aber schnell mit der „Deutschen Lesebibliothek“. Anfang 1820 wurde er als „Ausländischer Buchhändler seiner Majestät, dem König“ mit einem „Royal Warrant“, dem Hoflieferantenstatus, ausgezeichnet. Das Portfolio der Produkte und Dienstleistungen von Bohtes Geschäft umfasste nicht nur den Import deutscher Bücher, sondern auch ein ambitioniertes Verlagsprogramm für die Bereiche der deutschen und englischen Literatur, der klassischen Philologie und Naturgeschichte. Bohtes regelmäßige und lange Reisen nach Deutschland zur Leipziger Buchmesse reflektierten seine Ambition, zudem einer der Hauptexporteure englischer Bücher für den Kontinent zu werden. In den Worten eines anonymen Rezensenten wurde Bohte als „der temperamentvollste und nützlichste Buchverkäufer“ betrachtet. Trotz seines frühen Todes im Alter von 40 Jahren in London im Jahr 1824 hinterließ er wichtige Nachlässe sowohl in London als auch in Leipzig. In seiner Biografie von J. H. Bohte, "An Ocean of Literature", nutzt Graham Jefcoate eine umfangreiche Auswahl von Materialien aus Sammlungen in Großbritannien, Deutschland und weiteren Ländern, um die Rolle des Buchhandels im Laufe des deutsch-britischen Austauschs des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts zu veranschaulichen. ****** In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, the Bremen-born John Henry Bohte (1784-1824) quite rapidly acquired a reputation as a bookseller and publisher, with an import/export business based in London and also a presence in Leipzig. Bohte opened his shop in York Street, Covent Garden, in early 1813, while still in his twenties. He specialised in importing German books and German editions of the Greek and Roman classics, but soon combined his retail business with a German circulating library, the “Deutsche Lesebibliothek”. In early 1820, he was awarded a Royal Warrant as “Foreign Bookseller to His Majesty the King”. The portfolio of products and services offered by Bohte’s business included not just the importation of German books, but also an ambitious publishing programme in the fields of German and English literature, classical philology and natural history. Bohte’s regular and prolonged trips to Germany to attend the Leipzig Easter Book Fairs reflected his ambition to become a major exporter of English books to the continent too. In the words of one anonymous reviewer, Bohte was considered “a most spirited and most useful bookseller”. Although he died suddenly in London in 1824, aged only forty, he left an important legacy in both London and Leipzig. In his biography of J. H. Bohte, An Ocean of Literature, Graham Jefcoate has used a wide range of materials from collections in Britain, Germany and elsewhere to illuminate the role of the book trade in the process of Anglo-German exchange in the early nineteenth century.
Author : P. Westover
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230369498
Necromanticism is a study of literary pilgrimage: readers' compulsion to visit literary homes, landscapes, and (especially) graves during the long Romantic period. The book draws on the histories of tourism and literary genres to highlight Romanticism's recourse to the dead in its reading, writing, and canon-making practices.
Author : Edward Copeland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139510288
In the early nineteenth century there was a sudden vogue for novels centering on the glamour of aristocratic social and political life. Such novels, attractive as they were to middle-class readers, were condemned by contemporary critics as dangerously seductive, crassly commercial, designed for the 'masses' and utterly unworthy of regard. Until recently, silver-fork novels have eluded serious consideration and been overshadowed by authors such as Jane Austen. They were influenced by Austen at their very deepest levels, but were paradoxically drummed out of history by the very canon-makers who were using Austen's name to establish their own legitimacy. This first modern full-length study of the silver-fork novel argues that these novels were in fact tools of persuasion, novels deliberately aimed at bringing the British middle classes into an alliance with an aristocratic program of political reform.
Author : William Jerdan,William Ring Workman,Frederick Arnold,John Morley,Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030329752
Author : Edmund March Blunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : NYPL:33433058770318
Author : Samuel Leigh (publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590593865
Author : Samuel Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : London (England)
ISBN : OCLC:26838519
Author : Samuel Leigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : London (England)
ISBN : PRNC:32101017972611
Author : Samuel LEIGH (Publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017982372
Author : Samuel LEIGH (Publisher.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0027151827
