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

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Author / Creator:Towsey, Mark R. M.
Imprint:Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 361 pages)
Language:English
Series:Library of the written word ; v. 10
The handpress world ; v. 5
Library of the written word ; 10.
Library of the written word. Handpress world ; 5.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11246842
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ISBN:9789004193512
9004193510
1283039214
9781283039215
9789004184329
9004184325
9786613039217
6613039217
Notes:Based on the author's thesis, Ph. D., St. Andrews University, 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-360) and index.
English.
Print version record.
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.
Other form:Print version: Towsey, Mark R.M. Reading the Scottish Enlightenment. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010 9789004184329
Standard no.:10.1163/ej.9789004184329.i-364