Adam James Smith (York St John University), Rachel Stenner (University of Sussex), Kaley Kramer

The People of Print

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 127mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 130g
• ISBN-13: 9781009629454
• ISBN-10: 100962945X
• Artikelnr.: 74354981

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; 1. Introduction by Adam James Smith, Rachel Stenner, and Kaley
Kramer; 2. Elizabeth Nutt: Print Trade Matriarch (1666-1746) by Helen
Williams; 3. John Nicholson and the Auctioning of Copyright (d.1717) by
Jacob Baxter; 4. Catherine Sanger, Publisher in Bartholomew Close
(1687-1716) by Kate Ozment; 5. John White Junior: Printer in the North
(1689-1769) by Sarah Griffin; 6. Selling the Enlightenment: Mary Cooper and
Print Culture (1707-1761) by Lisa Maruca; 7. The 'Indefatigable' Ann Ward,
Printer in York (1715/6-1789) by Kaley Kramer; 8. Anne Fisher (1719-1778):
Not Simply a Printer's Wife by Barbara Crosbie; 9. Sold at the Vestry: John
Rippon (1751-1836) and the Hymnbook Trade by Dominic Bridge; 10. Diversity
in the book trades: Ann Ireland (1751-1843) of Leicester by John Hinks; 11.
'Laugh when you must, be candid when you can': The Concealed Resistance of
the Radical Printer Winifred Gales (1761-1839) by Adam James Smith; List of
Abbreviations.