Symbolic Caxton

Symbolic Caxton
Author: William Kuskin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2008
Genre: Design
ISBN:

In this fascinating read, William Kuskin argues that the development of print production is part of a larger social network involving the political, economic, and literary systems that produce the intangible constellations of identity and authority.

William Caxton and Early Printing in England

William Caxton and Early Printing in England
Author: Lotte Hellinga
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Printing
ISBN: 9780712350884

This work takes a fresh approach to the first 60 years of printing in England by placing Caxton, his contemporaries and the later generations in the broad context of the history of book production between the middle of the 15th century and the Reformation.

Fifteenth Century English Books

Fifteenth Century English Books
Author: Edward Gordon Duff
Publisher: [London] : Printed for the Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1917
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History

The Printer as Author in Early Modern English Book History
Author: William E. Engel
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre: Book industries and trade
ISBN: 9781032223988

"This is the first book to demonstrate how mnemotechnical cultural commonplaces can be used to account for the look, style, and authorized content of some of the most influential books produced in early modern Britain. In his hybrid role as stationer, publisher, entrepreneur, and author, John Day, master printer of England's Reformation, produced the premier navigation handbook, state-approved catechism and metrical psalms, Book of Martyrs, England's first printed emblem book, and Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. By virtue of finely honed book trade skills, dogged commitment to evangelical nation-building, and astute business acumen (including going after those who infringed his privileges), Day mobilized the typographical imaginary to establish what amounts to-and still remains-a potent and viable Protestant Memory Art"--

Slow Print

Slow Print
Author: Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2013-01-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0804784655

This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry. While Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, socialist, anarchist and other radicals of this later period suspected that a mass public could not exist outside the capitalist system. In response, they purposely reduced the scale of print by appealing to a small, counter-cultural audience. "Slow print," like "slow food" today, actively resisted industrial production and the commercialization of new domains of life. Drawing on under-studied periodicals and archives, this book uncovers a largely forgotten literary-political context. It looks at the extensive debate within the radical press over how to situate radical values within an evolving media ecology, debates that engaged some of the most famous writers of the era (William Morris and George Bernard Shaw), a host of lesser-known figures (theosophical socialist and birth control reformer Annie Besant, gay rights pioneer Edward Carpenter, and proto-modernist editor Alfred Orage), and countless anonymous others.

The Mighty Engine

The Mighty Engine
Author: Peter C. G. Isaac
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This overview of the nature and evolution of photomontage offers 171 monochrome examples. This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays covers the regulation of printed matter and its distribution, the preservation of Welsh language and culture in print, and various aspects of printing and the book trade in provincial England.

A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640

A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books 1557-1640
Author: R B (Ronald Brunlees) 18 McKerrow
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014065490

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