The British Publishing Industry in the Nineteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

Volume II: Publishing and Technologies of Production
Redaktion: Finkelstein, David; Nash, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together key documents covering technologies of production that affected the British publishing industry during a significant period of change. It focuses in particular on key source material related to industrialisation of print production.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003823568
• Artikelnr.: 69856546

Autorenporträt

Professor David Finkelstein (BA, PhD, FEA, FRHistS, FRSA) is a cultural historian who has published over 90 books, essays and refereed journal articles in areas related to nineteenth-century cultural history, print culture and media history, several of which have won awards. His most recent work includes Movable Types: Roving Creative Printers of the Victorian World (Oxford University Press, 2018), and the 850 page edited Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, volume 2: Expansion and Evolution, 1800-1900 (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Current projects include a co-edited volume on the colonial periodical press, as well as work on print workplaces in Edwardian visual culture. Dr Andrew Nash (MA, MSc, PhD) is Reader in Book History and Deputy Director of the Institute of English Studies in the University of London's School of Advanced Study where he directs the MA in the History of the Book and the London Rare Books School. In addition to monographs on Victorian literature and Scottish literature, he has edited or co-edited many works in the field of book and publishing history including The Culture of Collected Editions (2003), Literary Cultures and the Material Book (2007), New Directions in the History of the Novel (2014) and, most recently, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 7: the Twentieth Century and Beyond (2019). He is part of a new Leverhulme-funded research project on the early history of the Society of Authors (2020-24).

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Volume 2: Publishing and Technologies of Production Volume 2 Introduction Bibliography Part 1. TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES 1. J. Y. W. MacAlister
'The Durability of Modern Papers'
The Library
1
10
1 (1898)
pp. 295-304. 2. 'A Commercial History of a Penny Magazine' (1833) [4-part series] The Penny Magazine
vol 2: 'No. 1--Introduction & Paper-Making" 96 (August 31-September 30
1833)
pp. 377-84; 'No. 2. Wood-cutting and Type-founding'
101 (September 30-October 31
1833)
pp. 417-24; 'No. 3. Compositors' Work and Stereotyping'
107 (October 31-November 30
1833)
pp. 465-72; 'No. 4. Printing Presses and Machinery-Bookbinding'
112 (November 30-December 31
1833)
pp. 505-11. 3. 'Mechanism of Chambers's Journal'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
3
175 (6 June 1835)
pp. 149-51. 4. William Andrew Chatto
'Wood-Engraving
its History and Practice'
Illustrated London News (April 20
1844)
pp. 251-4; Supplement
pp. 257-9; April 27
1844
pp. 273-4; May 4
1844
pp. 293-4; May 11
1844
pp. 309-310; May 18
1844
pp. 325-6; June 1
1844
pp. 357-8; June 22
1844
pp.405-6; June 29
1844
p. 417; July 6
1844
p. 425. 5. C. H. Timperley
'Directions to Pressmen: of Presses'
from The printers' manual containing instructions to learners with scales of impositions
and numerous calculations
recipes
and scales of prices in the principal towns of Great Britain together with practical directions for conducting every department of a printing office (London: H. Johnson
etc.
1838)
pp. 89-94. 6. John Jamieson
'On Printing Machinery'
Cowen Tracts
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (1865)
pp. 1-13. 7. 'The Mechanism of the Wharfedale' British Printer
XV (Jan-Feb
1902)
p. 49. 8. C. H. Timperley
'Hand Typesetting'
from
The printers' manual containing instructions to learners with scales of impositions
and numerous calculations
recipes
and scales of prices in the principal towns of Great Britain together with practical directions for conducting every department of a printing office (London: H. Johnson
etc.
1838)
pp. 12-18. 9. 'The Monotype'
The Graphic (6 November 1897)
p. 7. 10. 'The Linotype Machine: What it Does and How it Works'
Journal of the American Society for Naval Engineers (Feb 1900)
pp. 208-211. 11. 'Linotype Reading'
British Printer 16 (1903)
p. 232 12. 'A Multiface Linotype Machine'
Scientific American (8 August 1903)
p. 97. Part 2. PREMISES 13. 'Destruction of the Caxton Printing-office by Fire'
Imperial Magazine
3 (1821)
pp. 243-52. 14. 'Inside a Printing Office I'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) 12
576 (3 January 1863)
13-15. 15. 'Inside a Printing Office II'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) 12
576 (10 January 1863)
28-31. 16. 'The Newspaper Printing Office'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) 12
579 (31 January 1863)
pp. 76-8. 17. 'A Modern Printing Works'
[Manchester Guardian] British Printer
XV (November-December 1902)
pp. 277-82. 18. 'A Description of the Offices of the Strand Magazine'
The Strand Magazine
4 (December 1892)
pp. 594-606. 19. 'The "Daily Graphic" - How it is Done (From the Supplement to the "Graphic" Christmas Number.)' British Printer
V (1892)
Jan-Feb
p. 8. 20. John Southward
'Progress in Book Printing'
from Progress in Printing and the Graphic Arts during the Victorian Era (London: Simpkin
Marshall
Hamilton
Kent & Co Ltd
1897)
pp. 18-22. Part 3. WORKING PRACTICES 21. 'The Printer's Apprentice'
The Penny Magazine (11 August 1838)
pp. 306-8. 22. Francis Bond Head
'The Printer's Devil'
The Quarterly Review
65
129 (December 1838)
pp 1-30. 23. 'A Few Words to Our Readers'
Chambers' Edinburgh Journal
New Series
vol. III
no. 53 (4 January 1845)
pp. 1-3. 24. H. Ashton
'How to Succeed as a Printer'
British Printer
VII (Jan-Feb 1895)
pp. 17-19. 25. 'Some Notes on Compositors'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) (17 January 1860)
pp. 37-40. 26. 'The Printers' Chapel'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) (24 January 1863)
pp. 62-4. 27. 'How Macaulay's History was Bound'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (London) (31 January 1856)
pp. 72-4. 28. 'The Printing and Binding of the Revised Bible'
The Leisure Hour: A Family Journal of Instruction and Recreation (August 1885)
pp. 543-6. 29. Frederick Saunders
The author's printing and publishing assistant
comprising explanations of the process of printing preparation ... (London: Saunders & Otley
1839)
pp 1-60. 30. The Author's Handbook: a complete guide to the art and system of publishing on commission (London: E Churton
Commission Publishers
1844). 31. C. Kegan Paul
'The Production and Life of Books'
Fortnightly Review (April 1883)
pp. 485-99. 32. Emily Hill
'What Can Our Daughters Do for a Living?'
Women's Penny Paper
8.195 (23 September 1897)
p. 198. 33. L. Barbara Brady and Anne Black
'Women Compositors and the Factory Acts'
The Economic Journal
9
34 (June 1899)
pp. 261-6. 34. 'The Trades Described' and 'Women's Work and Organisation'
from J. Ramsay Macdonald (ed.)
Women in the Printing Trades: A Sociological Study (London
1904)
pp. 1-16
24-43. 35. Charles Manby Smith
extract from The Working-man's Way in the World: being the autobiography of a journeyman printer (London
1853)
pp. 283-97. 36. Andrew Aird
Letter Press Printing in Glasgow During the Last 50 Years (Glasgow: Privately Printed
1882)
pp. 5-10. Index