Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Tracing a Genealogy of Oroonoko Editions; The Pilgrim's Progress, Print Culture and the Dissenting Tradition; Printing for the Author in the Long Eighteenth Century; Robert Burns's Interleaved Scots Musical Museum: A Case-Study in the Vagaries of Editors and Owners; Packaging, Design and Colour: From Fine-Printed to Small-Format Editions of Thomson's The Seasons, 1793-1802; Print Illustrations and the Cultural Materialism of Scott's Waverley Novels
Beyond Usefulness and Ephemerality: The Discursive Almanac, 1828-60The Last Years of a Victorian Monument: The Athenaeum after Maccoll; Index; Backcover
Summary
The complexity of print culture in Britain between the seventeenth and nineteenth century is investigated in these wide-ranging articles