Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century

Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century
Title Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author John Ashton
Publisher
Pages 514
Release 1882
Genre Chapbooks
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Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century

Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century
Title Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook
Author John Ashton
Publisher DigiCat
Pages 525
Release 2022-09-04
Genre History
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century" (With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction) by John Ashton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Chapbooks

Chapbooks
Title Chapbooks PDF eBook
Author Victor E. Neuburg
Publisher London : Woburn Press
Pages 100
Release 1972
Genre Reference
ISBN

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Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England

Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England
Title Provincial Readers in Eighteenth-Century England PDF eBook
Author Jan Fergus
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 328
Release 2007-01-25
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191538205

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Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction - novels, plays, chapbooks, children's books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England. This book thus offers the first solid demographic information about actual readership in eighteenth-century provincial England, not only about the class, profession, age, and sex of readers but also about the market of available fiction from which they made their choices - and some speculation about why they made the choices they did. Contrary to received ideas, men in the provinces were the principal customers for eighteenth-century novels, including those written by women. Provincial customers preferred to buy rather than borrow fiction, and women preferred plays and novels written by women - women's works would have done better had women been the principal consumers. That is, demand for fiction (written by both men and women) was about equal for the first five years, but afterward the demand for women's works declined. Both men and women preferred novels with identifiable authors to anonymous ones, however, and both boys and men were able to cross gender lines in their reading. Goody Two-Shoes was one of the more popular children's books among Rugby schoolboys, and men read the Lady's Magazine. These and other findings will alter the way scholars look at the fiction of the period, the questions asked, and the histories told of it.

A Description of Three Hundred Animals,

A Description of Three Hundred Animals,
Title A Description of Three Hundred Animals, PDF eBook
Author Thomas Boreman
Publisher
Pages 110
Release 1769
Genre Whales
ISBN

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Paris

Paris
Title Paris PDF eBook
Author Charissa Bremer-David
Publisher Getty Publications
Pages 169
Release 2011
Genre Architecture
ISBN 160606052X

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Published to accompany an exhibition on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Apr. 26-Aug. 7, 2011, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Sept. 18-Dec. 10, 2011.

Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries

Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Title Book Trade Connections from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries PDF eBook
Author John Hinks
Publisher
Pages 288
Release 2008
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN

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The ninth volume of the Print Network series contains twelve chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artefacts, from author to printer, publisher, bookseller and reader. Chronologically, the offerings range from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries as they track the developing trade in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Publishers and readers who spent part of their lives in North America are also featured in several of the chapters. The main theme emerging from this volume is the significance of cheap print, including newspapers and journals. The social, cultural political and economic significance of these artefacts is highlighted by an in-depth examination of the lives of those men and women who participated in the book trade.