A Sketch of the improvements now carrying on by Sir J. Sinclair ... in the County of Caithness, etc. [With three plates.]
Title | A Sketch of the improvements now carrying on by Sir J. Sinclair ... in the County of Caithness, etc. [With three plates.] PDF eBook |
Author | John SINCLAIR (Right Hon. Sir) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 1803 |
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A Sketch of the Improvements, Now Carrying on by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. in the County of Caithness, North Britain
Title | A Sketch of the Improvements, Now Carrying on by Sir John Sinclair, Bart. M.P. in the County of Caithness, North Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Sir John Sinclair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1803 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800
Title | Print Technology in Scotland and America, 1740–1800 PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Kirk McAuley |
Publisher | Bucknell University Press |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2013-11-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1611485444 |
In Print Technology in Scotland and America Louis Kirk McAuley investigatesthe mediation of popular-political culturein Scotland and America, from thetransatlantic religious revivals known as theGreat Awakening to the U.S. presidentialelection of 1800. By focusing on Scotlandand America—and, in particular, thetension between unity and fragmentationthat characterizes eighteenth-centuryScottish and American literature andculture—Print Technology aims to increaseour understanding of how tensions withinthese corresponding political and culturalarenas altered the meaning of printas an instrument of empire and nationbuilding. McAuley reveals how seeminglydisparate events, including journalism andliterary forgery, were instrumental andinnovative deployments of print not as a liberation technology (as Habermas’s analysis of print's structural transformation of the public sphere suggests), but as a mediator of political tensions.
The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842
Title | The Literature of British Domestic Architecture, 1715-1842 PDF eBook |
Author | John Archer |
Publisher | MIT Press (MA) |
Pages | 1116 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Architecture |
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While few historians would dispute the importance of the printed book in the development of domestic design in 18th- and 19th-century Britain, this is the first major study to trace the evolution of architectural ideas during the period by examining the literary output of architects. It is a work of extraordinary scholarship, based on an extensive search of dozens of major library collections, that will serve as a standard resource for researchers and librarians, book dealers and collectors. Most of the book is devoted to descriptions of hundreds of books and periodicals containing original designs for domestic structures. The earliest title described is Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus (1715), an important Palladian manifesto and the first book to illustrate a series of the author's own executed designs for dwellings, intended to redirect and reform British architectural taste, and the latest title is Supplement (1842) to John Claudius Loudon's Encyclopedia. Related materials on agriculture, landscape design, drawing, and perspective also are covered. Each entry includes a bibliographic description of all known editions and a commentary that describes and analyzes the text and plates, focusing in particular on the author's ideas and approaches to design issues. Appendixes to the principal entries provide a checklist of additional handbooks and manuals by important authors such as Crunden, Halfpenny, Langley, Nicholson, Pain, Richardson, Salmon, and Swan, and books showing domestic interiors. There is also a valuable short-title chronological list, and a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers. In a lengthy introductory essay, Archer discusses architecture and the book trade, the format and content of the books, and aspects of architectural theory and design-including ideas of "character" and "retirement," dwelling types such as villas, cottages, and row houses, model housing for laborers, and town and village planning. John Archer is Associate Professor in the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Title | The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 712 |
Release | 1978 |
Genre | Catalogs, Union |
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A sketch of the improvements, now carrying on in the county of Caithness, North Britain
Title | A sketch of the improvements, now carrying on in the county of Caithness, North Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Sir John Sinclair |
Publisher | |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1803 |
Genre | Agriculture |
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Title | General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 PDF eBook |
Author | British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1236 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | English imprints |
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