Publishing Business In Eighteenth Century England

Author : James Raven
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781843839101

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Publishing Business in Eighteenth-century England by James Raven Pdf

Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A raft of jobbing work serviced commerce and finance while many more practical guides and more ephemeral pamphlets on trade and investment were read than the books that we now associate with the foundations of modern political economy. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade; the book asks what it meant to be 'published' and how print, text and image related to the involvement of script. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. The reliability, reputation, regularity, authority and familiarity of print increased trust and confidence and changed attitudes and behaviours. New modes of publication and the wide-ranging products of printing houses had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.

Author : Rachel Cope,Amy Harris,Jane Hinckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000561128

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Family Life in England and America, 1690–1820, vol 3 by Rachel Cope,Amy Harris,Jane Hinckley Pdf

This four-volume collection of primarily newly transcribed manuscript material brings together sources from both sides of the Atlantic and from a wide variety of regional archives. It is the first collection of its kind, allowing comparisons between the development of the family in England and America during a time of significant change. Volume 3: Managing Families, I The sources included here document the economics of running a household, the experience of being a sibling and information on family inheritance and genealogy. Specifics on home economics include information on food and cooking, washing laundry, insurance inventories and plantation accounts.

Author : Valerie Smith
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783275663

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Rational Dissenters in Late Eighteenth-century England by Valerie Smith Pdf

Rational Dissent was a branch of Protestant religious nonconformity which emerged to prominence in England between c. 1770 and c. 1800. While small, the movement provoked fierce opposition from both Anglicans and Orthodox Dissenters.

Author : John P. Feather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : OCLC:848703170

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The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-century England by John P. Feather Pdf

Author : James Raven,University Lecturer in Modern History University of Oxford and Fellow James Raven
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300122619

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The Business of Books by James Raven,University Lecturer in Modern History University of Oxford and Fellow James Raven Pdf

In 1450 very few English men or women were personally familiar with a book; by 1850, the great majority of people daily encountered books, magazines, or newspapers. This book explores the history of this fundamental transformation, from the arrival of the printing press to the coming of steam. James Raven presents a lively and original account of the English book trade and the printers, booksellers, and entrepreneurs who promoted its development. Viewing print and book culture through the lens of commerce, Raven offers a new interpretation of the genesis of literature and literary commerce in England. He draws on extensive archival sources to reconstruct the successes and failures of those involved in the book trade—a cast of heroes and heroines, villains, and rogues. And, through groundbreaking investigations of neglected aspects of book-trade history, Raven thoroughly revises our understanding of the massive popularization of the book and the dramatic expansion of its markets over the centuries.

Author : Sir Henry Trueman Wood
Publisher : Trieste Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0649129369

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Industrial England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century by Sir Henry Trueman Wood Pdf

Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.

Author : Bob Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316512449

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Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century by Bob Harris Pdf

This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.

Author : Amanda Weldy Boyd
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783086689

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Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography by Amanda Weldy Boyd Pdf

“Staging Memory and Materiality in Eighteenth-Century Theatrical Biography” examines theatrical biography as a nascent genre in eighteenth-century England. This study specifically focuses on Thomas Davies’ 1780 memoir of David Garrick as the first moment of mastery in the genre’s history, the three-way war for the right to tell Charles Macklin’s story at the turn of the century and James Boaden’s theatrical biography spree in the 1820s and 1830s, including the lives of John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons, Dorothy Jordan and Elizabeth Inchbald. This project investigates the extent to which biographers envisioned themselves as artists, inheriting the anxiety of impermanence and correlating fear of competition that plagued their thespian subjects. It traces a suggestive, but not determinative, outline of generic development, noting the shifting generic features that emerge in context of a given work’s predecessors. Drawing heavily on primary sources, then-contemporary reviews and archival material in the form of extra-illustrated or “scrapbooked” editions of the biographies, this text is invested in the ways that the increasing emphasis on materiality was designed to consolidate, but often challenged, the biographer’s authority. This turn to materiality also authorized readerly participation, allowing readers to “co-author” biographies through the use of material insertions, asserting their own presence in the texts about beloved thespians.

Author : Gillian Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487580

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The Ephemeral Eighteenth-Century by Gillian Russell Pdf

This history of printed ephemera's rise as an eighteenth-century cultural category transforms understanding of 'disposable' printed items.

Author : James Baker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319499895

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The Business of Satirical Prints in Late-Georgian England by James Baker Pdf

This book explores English single sheet satirical prints published from 1780-1820, the people who made those prints, and the businesses that sold them. It examines how these objects were made, how they were sold, and how both the complexity of the production process and the necessity to sell shaped and constrained the satiric content these objects contained. It argues that production, sale, and environment are crucial to understanding late-Georgian satirical prints. A majority of these prints were, after all, published in London and were therefore woven into the commercial culture of the Great Wen. Because of this city and its culture, the activities of the many individuals involved in transforming a single satirical design into a saleable and commercially viable object were underpinned by a nexus of making, selling, and consumption. Neglecting any one part of this nexus does a disservice both to the late-Georgian satirical print, these most beloved objects of British art, and to the story of their late-Georgian apotheosis – a story that James Baker develops not through the designs these objects contained, but rather through those objects and the designs they contained in the making.

Author : Stéphane Jettot
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192690746

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Selling Ancestry by Stéphane Jettot Pdf

Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies. From the first Peerage in 1709 to the guidebooks of Debrett's and Burke's in the 1830s, Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products — a combination of court almanacs, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they could be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties. In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production, and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. Jettot demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction, offering an exciting and unique insight into the social history of eighteenth-century Britain.

Author : Isabella Alexander,H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-25
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9781783472406

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Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law by Isabella Alexander,H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui Pdf

There has been an explosion of interest in recent years regarding the origin and of intellectual property law. The study of copyright history, in particular, has grown remarkably in the last twenty years, with a flurry of activity in the last ten. Crucial to this activity has been a burgeoning focus on unpublished primary sources, enabling new and stimulating insights. This Handbook takes stock of the field of copyright history as it stands today, as well as examining potential developments in the future.

Author : Ileana Baird
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030549138

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Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture by Ileana Baird Pdf

Data Visualization in Enlightenment Literature and Culture explores the new interpretive possibilities offered by using data visualization in eighteenth-century studies. Such visualizations include tabulations, charts, k-means clustering, topic modeling, network graphs, data mapping, and/or other illustrations of patterns of social or intellectual exchange. The contributions to this collection present groundbreaking research of texts and/or cultural trends emerging from data mined from existing databases and other aggregates of sources. Describing both small and large digital projects by scholars in visual arts, history, musicology, and literary studies, this collection addresses the benefits and challenges of employing digital tools, as well as their potential use in the classroom. Chapters 1, 3, 8 and 10 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Author : Richard Wendorf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192898135

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Printing History and Cultural Change by Richard Wendorf Pdf

This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain. The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books printed in London, Dublin, and the American colonies between 1740 and 1780 is mapped in five-year increments which reveal that the appearance of the modern page in English began to emerge around 1765. This descriptive and analytical account focuses on poetry, classical texts, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, the novel, the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, sermons and religious writings, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, government publications, and private correspondence; it also examines the reading public, canon formation, editorial theory and practice, and the role of typography in textual interpretation. These changes in printing conventions are then compared to other aspects of cultural change: the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the publication of Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, the transformation of shop signs and the imposition of house numbers in London beginning in 1762, and the evolution of the English language and of English prose style. This study concludes that this fundamental shift in printing conventions was closely tied to a pervasive interest in refinement, regularity, and standardization in the second half of the century--and that it was therefore an important component in the self-conscious process of modernizing British culture.

Author : Barbara Burman,Ariane Fennetaux
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780300253740

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The Pocket by Barbara Burman,Ariane Fennetaux Pdf

A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 “A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.”—Roberta Smith’s “Top Art Books of 2019,” The New York Times This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives—from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen—and to explore their consumption practices, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. A wealth of evidence reveals unexpected facets of the past, bringing women’s stories into intimate focus. “What particularly interests Burman and Fennetaux is the way in which women of all classes have historically used these tie-on pockets as a supplementary body part to help them negotiate their way through a world that was not built to suit them.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “A brilliant book.”—Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement