Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2008
ISBN 10: 0199532206 ISBN 13: 9780199532209
Anbieter: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015281028 ISBN 13: 9781015281028
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Urbana:, 1940
Anbieter: Plurabelle Books Ltd, Cambridge, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: GIAQ
Paperback. Zustand: Good. Series: Illinois Studies in Social Sciences 167p large format paperback with blue card cover, nice well preserved copy Language: English.
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2001
ISBN 10: 076560776X ISBN 13: 9780765607768
Anbieter: Buchpark, Trebbin, Deutschland
Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 320 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Sonstiges.
Verlag: Hassell Street Press, 2021
ISBN 10: 1015281028 ISBN 13: 9781015281028
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: HASSELL STREET PR Sep 2021, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014385415 ISBN 13: 9781014385413
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: LIGHTNING SOURCE INC, 2021
ISBN 10: 1014385415 ISBN 13: 9781014385413
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New.
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2008
ISBN 10: 0199532206 ISBN 13: 9780199532209
Anbieter: Emile Kerssemakers ILAB, Heerlen, Niederlande
2008, 402pp, Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. As new! A publishing phenomenon began in Glasgow in 1765. Uniform pocket editions of the English Poets printed by Robert and Andrew Foulis formed the first link in a chain of literary products that has grown ever since, as we see from series like Penguin Classics and Oxford World Classics. Bonnell explores the origins of this phenomenon, analysing more than a dozen multi-volume poetry collections that sprang from the British press over the next half century. Why such collections flourished so quickly, who published them, what forms they assumed, how they were marketed and advertised, how they initiated their readers into the rites of mass-market consumerism, and what role they played in the construction of a national literature are all questions central to the study. The collections played out against an epic battle over copyright law, and involved fierce contention for market share in the 'classics' among rival publishers. It brought despair to the most powerful of London printers, William Strahan, who prophesied that competition of this nature would ruin bookselling, turning it into 'the most pitiful, beggarly, precarious, unprofitable, and disreputable Trade in Britain'. Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets were part of such a collection, dubbed 'Johnson's Poets'. The third edition of this collection, published in 1810, brought the national project to its high water mark it contained 129 poets, plus extensive translations from the Greek and Roman classics. By this point, all the features that characterize modern series of vernacular classics had been established, and never since has such an ambitious expression of the poetic canon been repeated, as Bonnell shows by peering forward into the nineteenth century and beyond. Based on work with archival materials, newspapers, handbills, prospectuses, and above all the books themselves, Bonnell's findings shed light on all aspects of the book trade. Valuable bibliographical data is presented regarding every collection, forming an indispensable resource for future work on the history of the English poetry canon.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2020
ISBN 10: 074860605X ISBN 13: 9780748606054
Anbieter: Monster Bookshop, Fleckney, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2019
ISBN 10: 074860605X ISBN 13: 9780748606054
Anbieter: moluna, Greven, Deutschland
Zustand: New. In this edition of Boswell s Life of Johnson , Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell s work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer s misreadings and author s errors which c.
Verlag: Edinburgh University Press Jun 2019, 2019
ISBN 10: 074860605X ISBN 13: 9780748606054
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this edition of Boswell's 'Life of Johnson', Marshall Waingrow offers a fresh reading of Boswell's work. He charts the changes made during composition and at the proof stage, and corrects and explains the printer's misreadings and author's errors which crept into the final edition.
Verlag: Printed for the Author, in whose hands the vouchers may be seen. 1761, 1761
Anbieter: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
[2], 36pp. 4to. Light browning to titlepage & margins of some of uncut page edges. Recent grey paper boards. ESTC T57029, BL, Oxford & National Archives only in the UK; 6 copies in North America. An octavo edition was also published in 1761, printed for S. Caldicott. John Ayliffe, a member of the Ayliffe family of Grittenham, was born at Tockenham, Wiltshire c.1718-19. He was educated at Harrow-on-the Hill and on his return to Tockenham, acted in the capacity of usher at the recently founded free school at Lyneham where, unknown to his parents, he married the daughter of a clergyman who had a fortune of five hundred pounds. Extravagance followed, and with the money all spent in two years, he secured a position first as a land agent, and subsequently as one of the commissaries of musters in the War Office. This carried a good income, but not one large enough to support the purchase and upkeep of his elegant new house in Dorset. Deception and fraud followed; he was executed at Tyburn on 7th November 1759. This record, attributed to Thomas Bonnell, an assistant to Ayliffe's solicitor Mr Reading, appears to have been published in an attempt to clear his own name from any association with Ayliffe's crimes. He refers to having 'laboured much unrewarded' with 'no prospect of favour', and notes on one occasion that 'I will in a few days return to prepare a case in my own defence'. An advertisement, printed on the verso of the titlepage, requests that 'any creditors or friends to the cause of truth and justice, who are possessed of papers, or privy to matters relative to property, are desired to give the author information thereof. And they are generously disposed to assist the feeble hand of innocence and distress against a Leviathan of power and oppression.'. Henry Fox, the fraud victim in the original case against Ayliffe, took out a claim against Bonnell. An account of this was published in 1761: The Test of the Right Hon. Henry Fox, Esq; in contest with Thomas Bonell, gent. Comprising the life and genealogy of the former, and the sufferings of the latter, the fatal case of John Ayliffe, Esq; and a record of such deeds as must alarm the present age, and amaze posterity.