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Two Renaissance Book Collectors is an illustrated study of the lives and works of the Renaissance book collectors Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Often described as the "Prince of Bibliophiles," the French sixteenth-century book collector Jean Grolier is the most famous of all patrons of bookbinding. This volume contains the first full account of his life since 1866, making a significant contribution to cultural history. Grolier is here contrasted with a younger contemporary, the Span...

In this book the author deals with every aspect of the production process of the Dublin University Press: the building and equipment; the personnel and working conditions; the policy and finance; and the output and its publication. He has also set the history of the Press in the context of the Dublin printing and publishing trade of the day. Founded in 1734 Dublin University Press is the oldest printing and publishing house in Ireland, its history linked intimately to the scholarly and intellect...

Charles Knight (1791–1873), the son of a Windsor bookseller, was apprenticed to his father at fourteen. He read widely and systematically, and began to buy, collect and sell rare books. He also worked as a journalist, and, on moving to London, set up as a publisher, then took to freelance writing, and acted as manager of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. In 1832, he launched the Penny Magazine, offering the working classes useful information, within a moral c...

When you've written a book you want to see it in print. You want people to read and enjoy it. The only thing standing in your way is the publishing industry which rejects 98 per cent of the manuscripts submitted to it. Why not skip months of collecting rejection slips and simply join them at their own game? Anyone can publish their own book, and the cost can be as little as zero. In this easy-to-use guide, Stewart Ferris explains everything you need to know to be able to convert your manuscript...

Bibliomania, the almost obsessive collecting of rare books and early editions by the aristocracy, which peaked in 1812 with the sale of the Valdarfer Boccaccio, was fuelled in no small part by the work of the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1776-1847). His most famous book, Bibliomania, popularised the word's use in England. The present work was first published in three volumes in 1817 and may be considered a continuation of Bibliomania in both style and content. Using a dialogue format wi...

What might the digital revolution we're currently living through mean for conventional paper books? Is there a future for the long-form text at all? At the onset of the digital deluge, books had evolved into the perfect reading machine. In the screen era, technology increasingly and emphatically foregrounds itself in the digital reading experience. It is one thing to identify what we lose in the process (which is a natural human tendency), but quite another and, it might be argued, an ultimately...

Nach grossen Erfolgen im Pressegeschaft profilierte sich der Ullstein Verlag ab 1903 in strategisch geschickter Mehrfachverwertung seiner Produkte auch mit einem facettenreichen literarischen Unterhaltungsprogramm und popularen Sachbuchern. Der Band betrachtet aus interdisziplinarer Perspektive die inhaltliche, programmatische und mediale Vielfalt des Verlags im Kontext kultureller, gesellschaftlicher und medialer Rahmenbedingungen der Zeit.

This volume covers the history of printing and publishing from the lapse of government licensing of printed works in 1695 to the development of publishing as a specialist commercial undertaking and the industrialization of book production around 1830. During this period, literacy rose and the world of print became an integral part of everyday life, a phenomenon that had profound effects on politics and commerce, on literature and cultural identity, on education and the dissemination of practical...

A key challenge facing all educators working in practice-based subjects is the need to negotiate tensions between past and present and provide a training that prepares students for fast-changing conditions, while also conveying long-standing principles. This Element therefore investigates how effectively editing and publishing programmes prepare graduates for industry and how well these graduates translate this instruction to the workplace. Taking a global perspective to gauge the state of the d...

In this nine-volume work, published between 1812 and 1815, the author and publisher John Nichols (1745-1826) provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century, and also gives 'an incidental view of the progress and advancement of literature in this kingdom during the last century'. (A shorter version had been published in 1782.) His subjects range from the publisher William Bowyer to Henry Fielding and Horace Walpole, and also include histories of individua...