... initials, F.A. (Frederick Akbar) Mahomed. Book history Collective investigation Nineteenth-century representations of aging Preventive medicine South Asian Abstract This paper demonstrates what emerges when we undertake a literary reading of a medical text, examining its form and structure as a text...

... of the original source is provided and the notation of the source is analysed. A hypothesis that the book was copied or used in 14th-century Oxford is offered. England Ars Nova polyphony motet book history fragments Irish Research Council 10.13039/501100002081 GOIPD/2019/601 Table 1 Sewing guards...

.... Cambridge University Library 1870.5.111. Reproduced with permission. Abstract This essay draws upon trends in cultural historiography as well as the methodologies of book history to argue that Victorian school histories articulated and reinforced three persistent myths of modernity (all of which have been...

... aims to contribute to both areas of research, and to book history in general, by examining the linguistic design of the title-page, one of the richest paratextual elements, in eighteenth-century grammar books, a type of non-fiction text that played a vital role in the education and print culture...

...This chapter focuses on various sources for Ireland’s book history covering the period 1891–2000. These sources offer a glimpse into the structures of the book publishing industry and readership patterns in Ireland during the twentieth century. The chapter provides a critical commentary...

...This introductory chapter begins with a discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to contribute to the new interdisciplinary field of book history, considering all aspects of print culture, from textual production and consumption to social contexts of print, including interpretive communities...

... Darwin Charles Journal of Researches Darwin marketing Sandwith Humphry travel books women travelers book history Campbell Mary Baine Hamilton Walter MacLaren Ian Milton Henry Johns Adrian authorship book history credibility exploration geography House of Murray interdisciplinarity...

...’—provide a compact but surprisingly comprehensive introduction to the landscape of the eighteenth-century book trades and the world of eighteenth-century publishing. Reading Johnson’s works and correspondence in the lights of bibliography (the study of books as material objects) and of book history...

... history have in the past rehearsed an unhelpfully narrow and excluding narrative of its origins and development. Charles I King Eikon Basilike English Short Title Catalogue ESTC history of the book bibliography Shakespeare Census women Eikon Basilike book history bibliography bibliographical...

... Printed Bookes 1595 Early English Books Online EEBO English Short Title Catalogue ESTC Shakespeare Census Walker Alice book history bibliography Shakespeare reference works source study compositor studies editing Charlotte Lennox Henrietta C. Bartlett Alice Walker In a lecture...

... Ambroise craniotomy experiments experimentation Hood Thomas James Robert A Medicinal Dictionary 1743– Taylor Katie anatomical illustration Diderot Dictionnaire universel de medicine 1746– Moore Rosemary anatomy birth figures book history copying epistemic images Eucharius Rösslin Jakob Rüff...

... Douglas Robert Burns’s self-representation in editions Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Burns editors’ performative role Burns in print Peritextual performance in book history If one, very standard definition of ‘performance’ is ‘an act of presenting a play, concert, or other form of entertainment...

... Morris crafted, and drawing on scholarship in book history, the chapter argues that Morris privileged practices of making that resonated with the materialism of physiological aesthetics, but that distinctively insisted on the political possibilities that were opened up by a community’s awareness of its...

...This particular book seeks to have experts on East Asian and European book history explore issues of mutual interest, to the benefit the main concerns and other issues of book history at the opposite ends of Eurasia. Here the editors concentrate on the book cultures of the two regions of Eurasia...

... identifies a distinctive feature of Chinese and Japanese book production, private non-commercial publishing, and shows how its popularity in East Asia complicates efforts to transfer to its book history the conventional Western historical narratives that identify the rise of printing with the rise...

...Employing methods from book history and print culture, this chapter locates the development of French-Canadian literature in the eighteenth century in such formative phenomena as the American and French Revolutions (1776, 1789), the arrival of the first printing press (1764), and the struggle...

...Book history, or bibliography, is the study of the materiality of texts. Its premise is that the meaning of texts is influenced by their physical form, their financial and commercial factors, their social distribution, and the various real uses to which they have been put. The purpose...

... is by incorporating methodologies and ways of thinking from the fields of book history and media studies into comics studies. Both book history and media studies demand that scholars be mindful of the commercial publishing contexts of comics, while additionally providing examples of hybrid methodologies that work...