The last years of a Victorian monument : the Athenaum after Maccoll / Marysa Demoor. The pilgrim's progress, print culture and the dissenting tradition / Nathalie ColleĢ-Bak -- Printing for the author in the long eighteenth century / J.A. Downie -- Robert Burns's interleaved Scots Musical Museum : a case study in the vagaries of editors and owners / Gerard Carruthers -- Packaging, design and colour : from fine-printed to small-format editions of Thomson's The seasons, 1793-1802 / Sandro Jung -- Print illustrations and the cultural materialism of Scott's Waverley novels / Peter Garside -- Beyond usefulness and ephemerality : the discursive almanac, 1828-1860 / Brian Maidment -- The last years of a Victorian monument : the Athenaum after Maccoll / Marysa Demoor.
Summary:
"The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's The Seasons; the 'printing for the author' practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, The Athenaeum."--Back cover.
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