Lackington, Allen, & Co's General Catalogue for the Year 1811
Author: Lackington, Allen and Co
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 896
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lackington, Allen and Co
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Published: 1811
Total Pages: 896
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Publisher: London, G. Allen
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 300
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: James Raven
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 572
ISBN-13: 9781570034060
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1994, James Raven encountered a letterbook from the Charleston Library Society detailing the ordering, processing, and shipping of texts from London booksellers to their American customers. The 120 letters, covering the period 1758-1811, provided unique material for understanding the business of London booksellers (for whom very little correspondence has survived) and Raven decided to publish an annotated edition of the letters. The letterbook, reproduced in its entirety, forms an appendix to the present volume, but Raven's study has blossomed from a relatively narrow examination of booksellers and their customers to a larger exploration of the role of books and institutions such as the Library Society in the formation of elite cultural identity on the fringes of empire. As a result, this meticulously researched book has much to offer scholars of gentry culture and community in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world as well as historians of the book--Publisher's Description.
Author: Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Library
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 766
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Curwen
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Published: 1873
Total Pages: 578
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 1232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christina Lupton
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1421425777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteenth century—when working hours increased and lighter and quicker forms of reading (newspapers, magazines, broadsheets) surged in popularity—the material form of the codex book invited readers to situate themselves creatively in time. Drawing on letters, diaries, reading logs, and a range of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century novels, Christina Lupton’s Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century concretely describes how book-readers of the past carved up, expanded, and anticipated time. Placing canonical works by Elizabeth Inchbald, Henry Fielding, Amelia Opie, and Samuel Richardson alongside those of lesser-known authors and readers, Lupton approaches books as objects that are good at attracting particular forms of attention and paths of return. In contrast to the digital interfaces of our own moment and the ephemeral newspapers and pamphlets read in the 1700s, books are rarely seen as shaping or keeping modern time. However, as Lupton demonstrates, books are often put down and picked up, they are leafed through as well as read sequentially, and they are handed on as objects designed to bridge temporal distances. In showing how discourse itself engages with these material practices, Lupton argues that reading is something to be studied textually as well as historically. Applying modern theorists such as Niklas Luhmann, Bruno Latour, and Bernard Stiegler, Lupton offers a rare phenomenological approach to the study of a concrete historical field. This compelling book stands out for the combination of archival research, smart theoretical inquiry, and autobiographical reflection it brings into play.