The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 provides, for the first time, easy access to information about the authors, printers, and distributors of books in the later seventeenth century. Chronological entries allow an insight into the day-to-day workings of the book trade. Substantial indexes allow quick reference to information on specific book titles, named authors, and book trade personnel, and specific topics such as booksellers' bills, coffee-houses, and imported books.

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700: Volume II: 1671-1685

Literature & Fiction

McKenzie, D. F.

Bell, Maureen

British & Irish

Oxford University Press

The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 presents abstracts of documents relating to the book trade and book production between 1641 and 1700. It brings together in one sequence edited abstracts of entries referring to named books, printers, and booksellers selected from the manuscripts of the Stationers' Company Court Books; all references to printing, publishing, bookselling, and the book trade occurring in major historical printed sources (Calendar of State Papers Domestic; the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts); and entries for contemporary pamphlets. The labour records of the printing and bookselling trades probably represent the fullest account of any work force in early modern England and the printed products of the trade survive in such great numbers that they enable us to examine them for evidence not only of who made and sold them but also of how they were made. Th

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Cambridge University Press, 1696–1712

Business & Money

Cambridge University Press

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

D.F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determine their meanings. He demonstrates that as works are reproduced and reread, they take on different forms and meanings. This is true of all forms of recorded information, McKenzie claims, including sound, graphics, films, landscape and new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

History & Criticism

D.F. McKenzie shows how the material form of texts crucially determine their meanings. He demonstrates that as works are reproduced and reread, they take on different forms and meanings. This is true of all forms of recorded information, McKenzie claims, including sound, graphics, films, landscape and new electronic media. The bibliographical skills first developed for manuscripts and books can, he shows, be applied to a wide range of cultural documents. This book offers a unifying concept of texts that seeks to acknowledge their variety and the complexity of their relationships.

Bibliography and the sociology of texts (The Panizzi lectures)

British Library

"The greatest bibliographer of our time", was how historian Robert Darnton described D.F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together a wide range of his writings on bibliography, the book trade and the "sociology of texts". Selected by the author himself before his sudden death in 1999, the essays range from the material transmission of Shakespeare's plays in the 17th century to the connections among oral, manuscript and print cultures. "Making Meaning" reflects McKenzie's virtuosity as a traditional bibliographer and reveals how his thought-provoking scholarship made him a driving force in the genesis and development of the new interdisciplinary field of book history. His refusal to recognize the traditional boundary between bibliography and literary history re-energized the study of the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of book production and reception. The editor's introduction and headnotes situate McKenzie's innovative and controversial thinking in the debates of his time.

Making Meaning: Printers of the Mind and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

Essays & Correspondence

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

"The greatest bibliographer of our time," was how historian Robert Darnton described D. F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together for the first time a wide range of his writings on bibliography, the book trade, and the "sociology of texts." Selected by the author himself before his sudden death in 1999, the essays range from the material transmission of Shakespeare's plays in the seventeenth century to the connections among oral, manuscript, and print cultures. Making Meaning reflects McKenzie's virtuosity as a traditional bibliographer and reveals how his thought-provoking scholarship made him a driving force in the genesis and development of the new interdisciplinary field of book history. His refusal to recognize the traditional boundary between bibliography and literary history re-energized the study of the social, political, economic, and cultural aspects of book production and reception. The editors' introduction and headnotes situate McKenzie's innovative and controversial thinking in the debates of his time.

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

McKenzie, D.

University of Massachusetts Press

Centenary Lecture. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society. 31 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. 8vo..

What's Past Is Prologue

Bibliographical Society of the univ

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A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700: Volume II: 1671-1685

A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700

Cambridge University Press, 1696–1712

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts

Bibliography and the sociology of texts (The Panizzi lectures)

Making Meaning: Printers of the Mind and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)

What's Past Is Prologue