Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge

British Printscape's Innovations, 1688-1832
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43366-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 83, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge explores the printscape – the mental mapping of knowledge in all its printed shapes – to chart the British networks of publishers, printers, copyright-holders, readers and authors. This transdisciplinary volume skilfully recovers innovations and practices in the book trade between 1688 and 1832. It investigates how print circulated information in a multitude of sizes and media, through an evolving framework of transactions. The authority of print is demonstrated by studies of prospectuses, blank forms, periodicals, pamphlets, globes, games and ephemera, uniquely gathered in eleven essays engaging in legal, economic, literary, and historical methodologies. The tight focus on material format reappraises a disorderly market accommodating a widening audience consumption.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferlier, Louisiane

Miyamoto, Benedicte

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 The Shape of Knowledge

Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto

Part 1: (In) forming Professional Networks

2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity

James Raven

3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright

Jeffrey Hopes

4 Entering into Copyright: Author–Publisher Transactions in the Stationers’ Company Records

Rebecca Schoff Curtin

5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Isabella Alexander

6 The Vauxhall Affray: Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print

Yvonne Cornish

Part 2: (Per) forming Knowledge in Print

7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650–1800

Katherine Parker

8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers

Craig Spence

9 Compositors’ Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography

James P. Ascher

10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books

Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus

David Duff

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index of Names

Index of terms

Über Autor(innen)

Louisiane Ferlier, Ph.D. (2012, Université Paris Diderot), is the Digital Resources Manager at Centre for the History of Science at the Royal Society. She has published articles on John Wallis, the Bodleian Library and cross-Atlantic circulation of books.

Bénédicte Miyamoto, Ph.D. (2011, Université Paris Diderot), is Associate Professor of British History at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She has published on eighteenth-century drawing manuals, sales catalogues and art markets.