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Order Nr. 14220 PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA. William L. Joyce, David D. Hall, Richard...

PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages. 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..... READ MORE

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Preface                                                        ix

INTRODUCTION
The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850,                 1
      by David D. Hall

THE BOOK TRADE
The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776: Personnel           48
      and Strategies, by Stephen Botein
The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of                   83
      Jeremy Condy, by Elizabeth Carroll Reilly
The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Afford-      132
      ability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth-
      Century Virginia, by Cynthia Z. Stiverson and
      Gregory A. Stiverson

BIBLIOCULTURAL STUDIES
Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the         174
      Eighteenth-Century Novel, by Robert B. Winans
Early American Music Printing and Publishing,                 186
      by Richard Crawford and D. W. Krummel

THE IMPACT OF PRINTING
Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of       228
      Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia, by Rhys Isaac
Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the       250
      Early Republic, by Nathan O. Hatch
Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860,               278
      by Donald M. Scott

AFTERWORD
From Cohesion to Competition, by Richard D. Brown             300

Notes on Contributors                                         310
Index                                                         311