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PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown
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First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing, including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together, the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850," "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776," "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century Virginia," "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," "Early Music Printing and Publishing," Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.
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JOHN PAAS & JAMES COOK, PROVINCIAL BOOKBINDING IN THE EIG...
by Docker, Frances
First edition, one of the 25 special copies in leather of the total of 200 numbered copies. Relates the story of the murder of the binding tool producer, John Paas, by the bookbinder, James Cook. Because of the notoriety of the case, the newspaper and some pamphlets were given out showing plates of the binding premise, etc. Some of these illustrations are reproduced in this book thus giving us an excellent idea of what an English 19th century bindery looked like. Another nice effort by the Plough Press of Geoffrey Wakeman.
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