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Bibliography and the Book Trades

- Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Af: Hugh Amory Engelsk Hardback

Bibliography and the Book Trades

- Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Af: Hugh Amory Engelsk Hardback
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Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.
Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth''s Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl?
In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.

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Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.
Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth''s Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl?
In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 184
ISBN-13: 9780812238372
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0812238370
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 22 okt 2004
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 159mm
Højde: 237mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 22 okt 2004
Forfatter(e): Hugh Amory
Forfatter(e) Hugh Amory

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780812238372

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 184

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 159mm

Højde 237mm

Udg. Dato 22 okt 2004

Oplagsdato 22 okt 2004

Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press

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