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Steam-driven Shakespeare or making good books cheap : five Victorian illustrated editions
- Title
- Steam-driven Shakespeare or making good books cheap : five Victorian illustrated editions / Alan R. Young.
- Author
- Young, Alan R., 1941-
- Publication
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Oak Knoll Press, publisher.
- Description
- 234 pages : illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- "Thanks to this transformation of the publishing industry, an edition of Shakespeare would no longer be a prized cultural treasure and status symbol restricted to the upper and middle classes. Instead Shakespeare's works could now enter the most modest of dwellings." -- !c From introduction.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The transformation of the publishing industry and the alliance of a pioneer printer and a pioneer publisher -- Charles Knight and the making of the pictorial edition of the works of Shakespeare -- Robert Tyas and the making of the works of Shakespeare revised from the best authorities -- George Routledge and the making of the plays of Shakespeare -- John Cassell and the making of the plays of Shakespeare ("Cassell's illustrated -- Shakespeare") -- John Dicks and the making of Dicks' complete edition of Shakespeare's works -- Afterword.
- Call Number
- JFF 18-170
- ISBN
- 9781584563594
- 1584563591
- LCCN
- 2017022901
- 99974140956
- 40027594278
- OCLC
- 995805728
- Author
- Young, Alan R., 1941- author.
- Title
- Steam-driven Shakespeare or making good books cheap : five Victorian illustrated editions / Alan R. Young.
- Publisher
- New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.
- Added Author
- Oak Knoll Press, publisher.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9997414095640027594278
- Research Call Number
- JFF 18-170