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Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820

Title: Reading the Scottish Enlightenment : books and their readers in provincial Scotland, 1750-1820 / by Mark R.M. Towsey.
Author: Towsey, Mark R. M.
Publication: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Description

xvi, 361 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Library of the written word ; v. 10
The handpress world ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Library of the written word ; 10.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 5.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Based on author's thesis, Ph.D., St. Andrews University, 2007.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-360) and index.

ISBN

9789004184329
9004184325

LCCN

2010027847

OCLC

ocn647218880
647218880
SCSB-1564304

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library