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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 | : Kate van Orden |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2013-10-19 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 0520957113 |
What does it mean to author a piece of music? What transforms the performance scripts written down by musicians into authored books? In this fascinating cultural history of Western music’s adaptation to print, Kate van Orden looks at how musical authorship first developed through the medium of printing. When music printing began in the sixteenth century, publication did not always involve the composer: printers used the names of famous composers to market books that might include little or none of their music. Publishing sacred music could be career-building for a composer, while some types of popular song proved too light to support a reputation in print, no matter how quickly they sold. Van Orden addresses the complexities that arose for music and musicians in the burgeoning cultures of print, concluding that authoring books of polyphony gained only uneven cultural traction across a century in which composers were still first and foremost performers.
| 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 | : Hala Auji |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 171 |
| Release | : 2016-05-30 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9004314350 |
During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevalent, letterpress-printed and lithographed works circulated within a larger network that was dominated by manuscript production. In this book, Hala Auji analyzes the American Press publications as important visual and material objects that provide unique insights into an era of changing societal concerns and shifting intellectual attitudes of Syria’s Muslim and Christian populations. Contending that printed books are worthy of close visual scrutiny, this study highlights an important place for print culture during a time of an emerging Arab modernity.
| 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 | : Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe |
| Publisher | : Harvey Miller |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
This volume brings formal coherence to the overwhelming mass of prints published in 16th century Rome. The aim is to provide an overview of who was publishing what prints and when over the course of the period.
