An Empire of Print

Steven Carl Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 28
• Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable ... Lees meer

A Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 19
• The culmination of five decades of research, this monumental work of descriptive bibliography, containing entries for more than 1,300 editions, assemb... Lees meer

The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623-2023

• Hardcover | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book
• Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies , more widely known as the First Folio, contains thirty-six of the thirty-eight plays attrib... Lees meer

Publishing Plates

Jeffrey M Makala

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• First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping--the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type--fundamentally... Lees meer

Everyday Life in the German Book Trade

Pamela E Selwyn

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• In his popular book The Germans (1982), Stanford historian Gordon Craig remarked: "When German intellectuals at the end of the eighteenth century talk... Lees meer

Of Making Many Books

Roger Burlingame

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• From its beginnings in 1846 in a brick chapel on Park Row to its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s at 597 Fifth Avenue, the publishing firm of Charles Scr... Lees meer

Conrad Richter

David R Johnson

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• Conrad Richter: A Writer's Life is the story of an aspiring writer who failed and then, desperate for money, tried again and wrote himself out of penn... Lees meer

The Impossible Craft

Scott Donaldson

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• In The Impossible Craft , Scott Donaldson explores the rocky territory of literary biography, the most difficult that biographers try to navigate. Wri... Lees meer

Notes on Footnotes

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book
• This collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions-... Lees meer

Publishing Plates

Jeffrey M Makala

• Hardcover | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book
• First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping--the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type--fundamentally... Lees meer

The House of Blackwood

David Finkelstein

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• The Scottish publishing firm of William Blackwood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British litera... Lees meer

One Hundred Years of James Joyce's "Ulysses"

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• Ulysses is widely regarded as the greatest novel of the twentieth century. Commemorating the 1922 publication of this modernist masterwork, One Hundre... Lees meer

Books and Religious Devotion

Allan F Westphall

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• In Books and Religious Devotion , Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish ... Lees meer

Making the Archives Talk

James L W West III

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 16
• Making the Archives Talk is a collection of twelve essays by editor, biographer, bibliographer, and book historian James L. W. West III. In these essa... Lees meer

As Ever Yours

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• "When I found these cigarettes you had left I thought at first to keep them as a remembrance. But I am far from needing a remembrance." --From Max Per... Lees meer

Licensing Loyalty

Jane McLeod

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• In Licensing Loyalty , historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fea... Lees meer

Graphic Passion

John Bidwell

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• The great painter Henri Matisse was also a great book illustrator. A pioneering member of the Fauves, a supreme colorist, a remarkable draftsman, and ... Lees meer

Into Print

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 15
• The famous clash between Edmund Burke and Tom Paine over the Enlightenment's "evil" or "liberating" potential in the French Revolution finds present-d... Lees meer

How Books Came to America

John Hruschka

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 17
• Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book ... Lees meer

The First White House Library

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• Published in association with the Bibliographical Society of America and the National First Ladies' Library Although many early U.S. presidents were a... Lees meer

Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England

Randy Robertson

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• Censorship profoundly affected early modern writing. Censorship and Conflict in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed picture of early modern ... Lees meer

Notes on Footnotes

• Hardcover | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book
• This collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions-... Lees meer

George Palmer Putnam

Ezra Greenspan

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book
• George Palmer Putnam (1814-1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply involved in de... Lees meer

William Parks

A Franklin Parks

• Paperback | Engels | Penn State the History of the Book | nr. 18
• William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early Ameri... Lees meer