A Century Of Printing
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Author | : Elizabeth M. Harris |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781567922684 |
"This complete, definitive, and illustrated survey of small nineteenth-century printing presses, written by a former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, is the first history of these lovely, useful, and varied machines. For there were, in those days, small printing presses created for every purpose. And there were, as well, innumerable boys and countless men eager to make their fortunes by investing in one, buying a few fonts of type, printing for a local clientele, and, with luck, building a printing or publishing empire." "What the desktop computer is to today, these small iron workhorses were to the nineteenth century. This book catalogues, describes, and illustrates over a hundred, with their makers, giving machine specifications as well as patent information. It provides a mine of previously undocumented printing information. No one seriously interested in the history of printing technology can afford to be without it."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Elizabeth L. Eisenstein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 814 |
Release | : 1980-09-30 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780521299558 |
A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.
Author | : Avery Elizabeth Hurt |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1502641151 |
Upon its invention in the mid-1400s, the printing press instantly became a revolutionary device. It introduced literacy to the masses and led Europe out of the Middle Ages. This book explores the press' exciting history, the social and political conditions in place at the time Johannes Gutenberg invented it, and the changes the invention wrought afterward. It traces the evolution of moveable type and information dissemination up to modern electronic communications technology, examining the positive and negative effects of these developments, both in the past and on democracy and humankind today. This book will give readers a new appreciation for the written word, whether it is printed on paper or displayed on a screen.
Author | : Sigfrid Henry Steinberg |
Publisher | : Oak Knoll Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Five Hundred Years of Printing is essential reading for the book collector, the cultural historian, the professional publisher and book designer, and teachers and students of typography, graphic design and communications studies. It immediately became established as a standard work on its publication as a Pelican in 1955 and saw two new editions within twenty years.
Author | : Corinna Zeltsman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2021-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0520344340 |
Introduction -- The politics of loyalty -- Negotiating freedom -- Responsibility on trial -- Selling scandal : The Mysteries of the Inquisition -- The business of nation building -- Workers of thought -- Criminalizing the printing press -- Conclusion.
Author | : A. Franklin Parks |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271052120 |
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher&’s path from the rural provinces of England to London and then to colonial Maryland and Virginia. While incorporating much new biographical information, the book widens the lens to take in the print culture on both sides of the Atlantic&—as well as the societal pressures on printing and publishing in England and colonial America in the early to mid-eighteenth century, with the printer as a focal point. After a struggling start in England, William Parks became a critical figure for both Annapolis and Williamsburg. He provided the southern United States with its first newspapers as well as civic leadership, book printing and selling, paper, and even postal services. Despite Jefferson&’s later dismissal of his Williamsburg newspaper as simply a governmental organ, Parks often pushed the limits of what was expected of a public printer, occasionally getting into trouble and confronting the kind of control and censorship that would eventually make evident the need for press freedoms in the new republic. It has often been asserted that, had Parks not died unexpectedly and relatively young, his reputation would have rivaled that of Franklin as a printer, entrepreneur, and man of affairs.
Author | : Rachael Scarborough King |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813943493 |
The eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn’t so simple. Manuscript remained a vital, effective, and even preferred forum for professional and amateur authors working across fields such as literature, science, politics, religion, and business through the Romantic period. The contributors to this book offer a survey of the manuscript culture of the time, discussing handwritten culinary recipes, the poetry of John Keats, Benjamin Franklin’s letters about his electrical experiments, and more. Collectively, the essays demonstrate that what has often been seen as the amateur, feminine, and aristocratic world of handwritten exchange thrived despite the spread of the printed word. In so doing, they undermine the standard print-manuscript binary and advocate for a critical stance that better understands the important relationship between the media. Bringing together work from literary scholars, librarians, and digital humanists, the diverse essays in After Print offer a new model for archival research, pulling from an exciting variety of fields to demonstrate that manuscript culture did not die out but, rather, may have been revitalized by the advent of printing. Contributors: Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University * Margaret J. M. Ezell, Texas A&M University * Emily C. Friedman, Auburn University * Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo * Michelle Levy, Simon Fraser University * Marissa Nicosia, Penn State Abington * Philip S. Palmer, Morgan Library and Museum * Colin T. Ramsey, Appalachian State University * Brian Rejack, Illinois State University * Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia * Andrew O. Winckles, Adrian College
Author | : Lotte Hellinga |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 544 |
Release | : 2018-02-12 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 900434036X |
Almost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.
Author | : Harold E. Sterne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Printing presses |
ISBN | : 9780712306638 |
This work provides more than 480 contemporary woodcuts and engravings illustrating the printing presses of the 19th century, often taken from manufacturer's catalogues and advertisements. A final chapter contains illustrations of supplementary printing equipment of the period. The presses include the One Dollar Printing Press - for the boys who simply wish to print cards, the Union Rotary Press - powerful and rapid, yet readily understood and run even by a lad of ten, and Geo W. Hunt's Superior Job Printing Press, whose automatic brayer and ink throw-off are in themselves a sufficient recommendation to ensure its popularity amongst intelligent printers. The illustrations and descriptions illuminate the advances in print technology over the century, and together form a comprehensive resource for any print or publishing historian, or collector of industrial equipment.
Author | : Raoul Lefèvre |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Troy (Extinct city) |
ISBN | : |