The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 write by Alastair J. Mann. This book was released on 2000-12-12. The Scottish Book Trade, 1500-1720 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the Scottish book trade from c.1500 to c.1720, looking at booksellers, bookbinders, stationers and printers and their relationship to the forces of authority. The scale of the Scottish book trade in this period was surprisingly large, consisting of over 150 printers and over 400 booksellers, but its rate of growth was not constant as it was buffeted by the winds of economic and political circumstances. It is the public, not private world of book dissemination that is examined. Emphsis is placed more on supply than on demand. It is shown that the unique qualities of the printed book, with its blend of commerce and technology on the one hand, and intellect and ideology on the other, ensured that authority - burghs, church, governemt (crown and executive) and law courts - reacted with a complex response of liberty and prohibition. So it was for all nations experiencing the arrival of printing, but Scotland had its own particular range of dynamics, a distinct Scottish tradition.
Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography
Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography write by Mary K. Mannix. This book was released on 2015. Guide to Reference in Genealogy and Biography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An excellent starting point for both reference librarians and for library users seeking information about family history and the lives of others, this resource is drawn from the authoritative database of Guide to Reference, voted Best Professional Resource Database by Library Journal readers in 2012. Biographical resources have long been of interest to researchers and general readers, and this title directs readers to the best biographical sources for all regions of the world. For interest in the lives of those not found in biographical resources, this title also serves as a guide to the most useful genealogical resources. Profiling more than 1400 print and electronic sources, this book helps connect librarians and researchers to the most relevant sources of information in genealogy and biography.
Fiction of Unknown or Questionable Attribution, 2: Peppa and Alcander and Philocrates
Fiction of Unknown or Questionable Attribution, 2: Peppa and Alcander and Philocrates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fiction of Unknown or Questionable Attribution, 2: Peppa and Alcander and Philocrates write by Erin Henriksen. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Fiction of Unknown or Questionable Attribution, 2: Peppa and Alcander and Philocrates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The second of two volumes of 'Fiction of unknown or questionable authorship, 1641-1700,' this volume presents in facsimile two seventeenth-century novels, Alcander and Philocrates: Or, The Pleasures and Disquietudes of Marriage. A Novel. Written by a Young Lady (1696) and Peppa, or The Reward of Constant Love a novel: done out of French: with several songs set to musick for two voices / by a young-gentlewoman (1689). The first of these is an original, unattributed work written in English; the second is a translation from the French for which there is some evidence of a female translator. An original introduction to the volume provides information about the content of each novel; what the authors have discovered about each work's publication and authorship; and the physical copies of the seventeenth century books from which the facsimiles are taken.
Discovery in Haste
Discovery in Haste - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Discovery in Haste write by Roderick McConchie. This book was released on 2019-05-20. Discovery in Haste available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discovery in Haste is the first book to survey the English printed medical dictionary, a greatly under-researched area, from Andrew Boorde's Breviary of Helthe of 1547 to Benjamin Lara’s surgical dictionary of 1796. The book begins with Andrew Boorde’s Breviary of Helthe of 1547, moves on to medical glossaries, which were produced through the whole period, the ‘physical dictionaries’ of the mid-seventeenth century which first employed ‘dictionary’ in the title, the translation into English of Steven Blancard’s dictionary, Latin medical dictionaries of the late seventeenth century by Thomas Burnet and John Cruso, the influential dictionary by John Quincy which dominated the eighteenth century, surgical dictionaries through to that by Benjamin Lara, Robert James’s massive encyclopaedic dictionary and the work derived from it by John Barrow, as well as George Motherby’s dictionary of 1775. The characteristics of each are discussed and their inter-relationships explored. Attention is also paid to the printing history and the way the publishers influenced the works and, where appropriate, to the influence each had on succeeding dictionaries. This book is the first to locate medical dictionaries within the history of lexicography.
London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole
London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole write by Michael Harris. This book was released on 1987. London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing on the mid-eighteenth century, this book provides the first clear view of the press of London, where the dominant patterns of organization and content of the English press were worked out.
