print culture
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Lucy Peltz, Facing the Text: Extra-Illustration, Print Culture, and Society in Britain 1769-1840
Nearly every rare book library has at least one extra-illustrated book; many archives hold hundreds of them. Yet the polarizing eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practice of extra-illustration has rarely been studied…
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Stephan Füssel, ed., Gutenberg-Jahrbuch No. 93 (2018)
This issue also serves as a celebration of the five hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Gutenberg’s death. Appropriately the first four contributions deal with early printed editions of the Bible.…
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Megan J. Elias. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. United Tastes: The Making of the First American Cookbook.
Megan J. Elias. Food on the Page: Cookbooks and American Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 296p. ISBN 9780812249170. US$ 34.95. Keith Stavely and Kathleen Fitzgerald. United Tastes: The…
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Steven Carl Smith. An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
Steven Carl Smith. An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. xvi, 244p. ISBN 9780271078519. US$…
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Matt Cohen. Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution
Matt Cohen. Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2017. xvi, 269p., ill. ISBN 9781609384760. US$ 65.00 Published as part of the University of Iowa Press’s…
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Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print
Bartholomew Brinkman. Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. ix, 272p., ill. ISBN 9781421421346. US $50.00. Bartholomew Brinkman’s surprising, skillfully argued Poetic Modernism…
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Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation
Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation at The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto (25 September–20 December 2017).
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Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini, eds. Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience
Paul Raphael Rooney and Anna Gasperini, eds. Media and Print Culture Consumption in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Victorian Reading Experience. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. New Directions in Book History. 241 p. ISBN…