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1 online resource : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall -- Chapter One, The Emergence of the Modern Trade Copyright and Scottishness / Warren McDougall Inside the Printing House, John Morris William Smellie: A Printer's Life, Stephen W. Brown Paper, Stephen W. Brown Bindings, William Zachs The Glasgow Homer, Brian Hillyard Richard Cooper Sr and Book Illustration, Joe Rock Atlases, Map-makers and Map Engravers, Chris Fleet Maps, Chris Fleet John Kay, Caricaturist, Iain Gordon Brown The Spread of Printing, Anette Hagan -- Chapter Two, Developing a Marketplace for Books Edinburgh, Warren McDougall Bookselling in Early Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh, Richard Ovendon The Business Papers of Bell & Bradfute, William Zachs Glasgow, Michael Moss Aberdeen and the North-East, Iain Beavan The Gaelic Book, Ronald Black Scottish Publishers in London, Richard B. Sher Ireland, Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall -- Chapter Three, Intellectual Exchanges and Scottish Authors Abroad The Scottish-Dutch Trade, Esther Mijers Scottish Authors in Germany, Thomas Ahnert The Market for French Books, Stephen W. Brown Hume's Political Discourses in France, Gilles Robel Scottish Books and the Grand Tour, Iain Gordon Brown Ossian in Europe, Howard Gaskill Russia, Beatrice Teissier Asia, Beatrice Teissier America, Warren McDougall The American Founders and Scottish Books, Terrence Moore Canada, Fiona A. Black -- Chapter Four, The Popular Press and the Public Reader Literacy, Alexander Murdoch Natural History, Natural Philosophy, and Readers, Matthew Eddy Textbooks, Terrence Moore Reading in Universities, Roger Emerson Institutional Libraries, Murray C.T. Simpson Private Libraries, Murray C.T. Simpson Subscription and Circulating Libraries, K.A. Manley Newspapers and Magazines, Stephen W. Brown Edinburgh v the Advertiser: A Case Study, Martin Moonie Cheap Print on Scottish Streets, John Scally The Pamphlet, Iain Beavan Pamphlet Wars in the 1790s, Gordon Pentland Agricultural Pamphlets, Heather Holmes Cookery Books, Catherine Brown Children's Books, Brian Alderson -- Chapter Five, Publishing the Enlightenment Reading in Scottish Enlightenment, Mark Towsey The 'Age of Criticism' and the Critical Reader: George Ridpath, Mark Towsey Women's Reading, Mark Towsey A Woman's Library in 1729: Grisel Erskine, Murray C.T. Simpson Religion, Ann Matheson Hugh Blair's Sermons, Ann Matheson The Novel, Peter Garside Adam Smith and Scottish Books on Political Economy, Richard B. Sher Medicine, Fionna Macdonald Agricultural Publishing, Heather Holmes Archaeology in the Earlier Eighteenth Century, Iain Gordon Brown The Journalistic Life: Thomas Blacklock, David Shuttleton The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall -- Chapter Six, Scottishness and the Trade Print and Scotticisms, Marina Dossena The Revival of Scotland's Older Literature, Alasdair MacDonald Scots Poetry before Burns, Christopher Maclachlan Robert Burns, G. Ross Roy Music, David Johnson Gaelic Secular Printing, Ronald Black |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Books -- Scotland -- History
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Book industries and trade -- Scotland -- History
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Publishers and publishing -- Scotland -- History
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Books and reading -- Scotland -- History
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Publishing.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Reference
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Book industries and trade
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Books
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Books and reading
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Publishers and publishing
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Scotland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Stephen W., 1953-
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McDougall, Warren.
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| ISBN |
9780748628964 |
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0748628967 |
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1322980934 |
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9781322980935 |
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