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Simulating antiquity in boys' adventure fiction : maps and ink stains
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ISBN: 9781009158930 9781009158947 1009158945 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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"A genre that glorifies brutish masculinity and late Victorian imperialism, boys' 'lost world' adventure fiction has traditionally been studied for its politically problematic content. While attuned to these concerns, this Element approaches the genre from a different angle, viewing adventure fiction as not just a catalogue of texts but a corpus of books. Examining early editions of Treasure Island, King Solomon's Mines, and The LostWorld, the Element argues that fin-de-siècle adventure fiction sought to resist the nineteenth-century industrialisation of book production from within. As the Element points out, the genre is filled with nostalgic simulations of material anachronisms - 'facsimiles' of fictional pre-modern paper, printing, and handwriting that re-humanise the otherwise alienating landscape of the modern book and modern literary production. The Element ends by exploring a subversive revival of lost world adventure fiction that emerged in response to e-books at the beginning of the twenty-first century"--

The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
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ISBN: 0711224528 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Lincoln


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The British book trade from Caxton to the present day : a bibliographical guide based on the libraries of the National Book League and St Bride Institute
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ISBN: 0233963537 9780233963532 Year: 1973 Publisher: [London] André Deutsch : National Book League


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The rise of the modernist bookshop : books and the commerce of culture in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 9781472446992 1472446992 9781315553382 9781317017455 9781317017462 Year: 2015 Publisher: Surrey Ashgate

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The trade in books has always been and remains an ambiguous commercial activity, associated as it is with literature and the exchange of ideas. This collection is concerned with the cultural and economic roles of independent bookstores, and it considers how eight shops founded during the modernist era provided distinctive spaces of literary production that exceeded and yet never escaped their commercial functions. As the contributors show, these booksellers were essential institutional players in literary networks. When the eight shops examined first opened their doors, their relevance to literary and commercial life was taken for granted. In our current context of book stores, online shopping, and ebooks, we no longer encounter the book as we did as recently as twenty years ago. By contributing to our understanding of bookshops as unique social spaces on the thresholds of commerce and culture, this volume helps to lay the groundwork for comprehending how our relationship to books and literature has been and will be affected by the physical changes to the reading experience taking place in the twenty-first century

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Booksellers and bookselling --- Independent bookstores --- Literature publishing --- Authors and readers --- Books and reading --- Modernism (Literature) --- 655.42 <41> --- 655.42 <73> --- 655.42 <44> --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Readers and authors --- Authorship --- Literary publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Bookstores --- Book sales --- Book industries and trade --- 655.42 <44> Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- 655.42 <44> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Frankrijk --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Frankrijk --- 655.42 <73> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 655.42 <73> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- History --- Social aspects. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Publishing --- Book history --- History of civilization --- anno 1900-1999 --- Social aspects --- Book dealers --- Dealers, Book


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The brand of print
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ISBN: 9789004410237 9789004410244 9004410244 9004410236 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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"The Brand of Print" offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways printers, publishers, stationers, and booksellers designed paratexts to market printed books as cultural commodities. This study traces envoys to the reader, visual design in title pages and tables of contents, and patron dedications, illustrating how the agents of print branded their markets by crafting relationships with readers and articulating the value of their labor in an increasingly competitive trade. Applying terms from contemporary marketing theory to the study of early modern paratexts, Andie Silva encourages a consideration of how print agents' labor and agency, made visible through paratextual design, continues to influence how we read, study, and digitize early modern texts.

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Book history --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- bookselling --- branding --- book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- 339:094 --- 655.42 <41> --- 658.8 --- 82.08 --- Book industries and trade --- Paratext --- Books --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 82.08 Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- Literaire activiteiten. Literaire technieken --- 658.8 Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- Marketing. Sales. Selling. Distribution --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- History --- Marketing&delete& --- E-books --- History. --- Marketing --- Livres --- Paratexte --- Industrie et commerce --- Histoire.


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The trade in rare books and manuscripts between Britain and America c. 1890-1929
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ISBN: 9781009070102 9781009069052 1009069055 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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This Element examines the trade in rare books and manuscripts between Britain and America during a period known as the 'Golden Age' of collecting. Through analysis of contemporary press reports, personal correspondence, trade publications and sales records, this study contrasts American and British perspectives as rare books passed through the commercial market. The aim is to compare the rhetoric and reality of the book trade in order to assess its impact on emerging cultural institutions, contemporary scholarship and shifting notions of national identity. By analysing how markets emerged, dealers functioned and buyers navigated the market, this Element interrogates accepted narratives about the ways in which major rare book and manuscript collections were formed and how they were valued by contemporaries.

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Book industries and trade --- Manuscripts --- Rare books --- History --- Bibliography --- Book rarities --- Books --- Rare library materials --- Codices --- Nonbook materials --- Archival materials --- Charters --- Codicology --- Diplomatics --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Paleography --- Transmission of texts --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 655.42 <41> --- 655.42 <73> --- 094:33 --- 094:33 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Economie. Economische wetenschappen. Staatshuishoudkunde --(algemeen) --- 655.42 <73> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 655.42 <73> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland


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Marketing English books, 1476 - 1550 : how printers changed reading
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ISBN: 9780198847588 9780192586841 9780192586858 019258684X 0191904015 0198847580 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press

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The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue - in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science - but also that combines these subjects productively. It offers innovative studies on topics that may include, but are not limited to, manuscript and book history; languages and literatures of the global Middle Ages; race and the post-colonial; the digital humanities, media and performance; music; medicine; the history of affect and the emotions; the literature and practices of devotion; the theory and history of gender and sexuality, ecocriticism and the environment; theories of aesthetics; medievalism. Marketing English Books is about how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets. Until the advent of print, the sale of books had been primarily a bespoke trade, but printers faced a new sales challenge: how to sell hundreds of identical books to individuals, who had many other demands on their purses. This book contends that this forced printers to think carefully about marketing and potential demand, for even if they sold through a middleman—as most did—that wholesaler, bookseller, or chapman needed to be convinced the books would attract customers. Marketing English Books sets out, therefore, to show how markets for a wide range of texts were cultivated by English printers between 1476 and 1550 within a wider, European context: devotional tracts; forbidden evangelical books; romances, gests, and bawdy tales; news; pilgrimage guides, souvenirs and advertisements; and household advice. Through close analysis of paratexts—including title-pages, prefaces, tables of contents, envoys, colophons, and images—the book reveals the cultural impact of printers in this often overlooked period. It argues that while print and manuscript continued alongside each other, developments in the marketing of printed texts began to change what readers read and the place of reading in their lives on a larger scale and at a faster pace than had occurred before, shaping their expectations, tastes, and even their practices and beliefs.

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Booksellers and bookselling --- Printers --- Book industries and trade --- Books --- Books and reading --- English literature --- History --- Marketing --- Publishing --- 655.15 <41> --- 655.42 <41> --- 655 <09> --- 339:094 --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- 339:094 Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- Handel. Internationale economische betrekkingen. Wereldeconomie-:-Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora --- 655.42 <41> Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.42 <41> Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Boekhandel--algemeen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bookselling in general. Selling of publications. General, antiquarian and wholesale bookselling--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.15 <41> Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 655.15 <41> Printing houses, presses and related businesses--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Drukkerij en verwante ondernemingen: organisatie; gebruiken; beroepsvereniging--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Printing houses, presses and related businesses--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Grafische industrie. Drukkerij. Uitgeverij. Boekhandel-- algemeen--Geschiedenis van --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- E-books --- Book history --- book history --- booksellers --- printers [people] --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- England --- Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 15th century --- Booksellers and bookselling - England - History - 16th century --- Printers - England - History - 15th century --- Printers - England - History - 16th century --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Book industries and trade - Europe - History - 16th century --- Books - Europe - Marketing - History - To 1500 --- Books - Europe - Marketing - History - 16th century --- Books and reading - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Books and reading - Europe - History - 16th century --- English literature - Publishing - History - To 1500 --- English literature - Publishing - History - 16th century --- booksellers [people]

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