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Cambridge History of the Book in Britain

Vol. 4 covers a period marked by a growth in reading and the development of a mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news. Discusses how atlases, maps and travel literature were part of the project of empire-building.

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  • "Book in Britain"
  • "Book in Britain"@en
  • "History of the book in Britain"@en
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  • "Vol. 4 covers a period marked by a growth in reading and the development of a mass market in almanacs, ABCs, chapbooks, ballads and news. Discusses how atlases, maps and travel literature were part of the project of empire-building."@en
  • "Vol. 6 examines the revolution in the manufacture and use of books from 1830-1914. Shows how books became cheap, how publishers used the magazine and newspaper markets to extend their influence, and how book ownership became universal for the first time."@en
  • ""The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."--Publisher description."
  • "Vol. 5 covers the history of printing and publishing from the lapse of government licensing of printed works in 1695 to the development of publishing as a specialist commercial undertaking and the industrialization of book production around 1830."@en
  • "Vol. 3 presents an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557."@en
  • "Vol. 1 explores the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration, examines the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent. Discusses the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts and evaluates the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions."@en
  • "The resource offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. It seeks to represent much of that variety, and investigates the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."@en
  • "Vol. 2 discusses the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing, and decoration), its purpose and readership, and as a vehicle for particular types of text (history, sermons, medical treatises, law and administration, music)."@en

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  • "History"
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  • "The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain"
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  • "The Cambridge history of the book in Britain"
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