Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"book trade"”.
-
The bookbinder and historical invisibility: bookbinding and the Staffordshire book trade 1750-1850
Provincial bookbinding has been largely overlooked as a subject for study. The social history of bookbinding has been neglected in the historiography of the book trade, confining it in narrow bibliographical studies. This thesis investigates and challenges this situation, and the orthodox view of …
-
The nineteenth-century book trade in Aberdeen, with primary reference to Lewis Smith.
… career of Lewis Smith, retail and wholesale bookseller, stationer and publisher, is examined and analysed within the context of the nineteenth-century bookselling and related trades in Aberdeen. Chapter 1 examines current scholarly interest in the provincial book trade and acknowledges …
-
The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… by illuminating the ways the transatlantic book trade accelerated the production of fantasies of Englishness in the early modern era. Literary scholarship has tended to divide English and American literature too sharply at this early period, seeking distinctive national literatures from …
-
A history of the Kano Book Market, c. 1920-2020
… both empirical and conceptual tools from book history, this dissertation documents the history of the Kano Book Market (KBM) in northern Nigeria. Its sources are drawn from archives, private and public records, oral histories, and "printed manuscripts" (religious tracts retaining …
-
The Clergy and Print in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-1750
… historiography surrounding print culture and the book trade, the worldliness of print remains a point of common emphasis. Indeed, many influential studies either assume or actively present the history of print as part of a broader ‘secularization thesis’. Recently, however, historians have …
-
Bindings of Baskerville: Study of the bindings found on John Baskerville’s editions in the British Isles and abroad (18th-19th century)
… shed light on the place of the printer in the book trade. John Baskerville (1706-1775), the eighteenth-century English printer and typefounder from Birmingham, extended his interest in bookmaking to the manufacture of specific bindings involving a workshop in Birmingham. Little is known of the …
-
A bibliographical and textual study of the wordbooks for James Miller's Joseph and his brethren and Thomas Broughton's Hercules, oratorio librettos set to music by George Frideric Handel, 1743-44.
This thesis recovers the wordbooks for Handel’s oratorios from their neglect in literary and musical history. Taking Joseph and his Brethren and Hercules as samples, it shows the essential place of wordbooks in the original oratorio experience and challenges an editorial and performance practice …
-
Adult readers in the Soviet Union
… affects the writer, the publishing process, the book trade, libraries and ultimately the reader. Chapters Three and Four consider problems of the supply of reading matter through the retail trade and through mass (public) libraries. Chapter Five is an analysis of how various sociodemographic …
-
The Chanted Mass in Parisian Ecclesiastical and Civic Communities, 1480--1540: Local Liturgical Practices in Manuscripts and Early Printed Service Books
… of Paris as represented in a group of service books produced by Parisian printers between 1480 and 1540, and manuscripts used in the cathedral, parish churches, and civic communities from the thirteenth through the sixteenth centuries. Additionally, the dissertation provides evidence that …
-
The Translation and Reception of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in Renaissance Literary Culture, 1556-1674
… 1556 and 1674 against trends in the European book trade, continental scholarship, and the Boethian commentary tradition, as well as vital English trends in poetics, epistolary culture, and private and institutional life. I make two primary arguments concerning these translations. First, I …
-
Freedom Through Books: Helen Haines and Her Role in the Library Press, Library Education, and the Intellectual Freedom Movement
… schooling, Haines became a staunch advocate of books as a means to opportunity, equality, and freedom. This belief was strengthened by experience in the book trade under her first employer, Richard Rogers Bowker, and then broadened by her membership in the American Library Association, for whom …
-
James Magee (1707-1797) and the Belfast print trade, 1771-1781
… assesses his contribution towards the Belfast book trade in the eighteenth century. The first chapter discusses the peripheral nature of Belfast printing, outlining the details of Magee’s career (1735-1791) and examining his practices in terms of its provinciality. The second chapter focuses on …
-
Reading between the lines, 1839-1939 : popular narratives of the Afghan frontier
… Using the quantitative methodologies of book history, my thesis sheds light on the public responses to three successive Anglo-Afghan wars, and the reception of the writings to which these gave rise. By this means, I trace the rise and fall of readers' interest in Afghanistan through six …
-
Birth of the First: Authenticity and the Collecting of Modern First Editions, 1890-1930
… dubbed a “mania” for modern first editions as book collectors trained their sights on authors who were contemporaries and, in some cases, still living. Prices for modern authors reached unmatched heights in the collectors’ market, and both bibliophilic publications and general interest …
-
The Atlantic Revolutions and the Movement of Information in the British and French Caribbean, c. 1763-1804
… of print culture, such as colonial newspapers, books, and almanacs, as well as correspondence records among different social groups. In terms of which groups are studied, these include printers, postal service workers, colonial and naval officials, and Catholic missionaries. The dissertation is …
-
Networks of Print, Patronage and Religion in England and Scotland 1580-1604: The Career of Robert Waldegrave
… of scholarship concerning printers and the print trade, illustrating the varied role Waldegrave played, both in relation to the texts he produced and within a broader trans-national context of print There are three major thematic areas of enquiry; whether Waldegrave’s characterization by …