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Using a metadata approach, this article explores the history of printing, publishing, print culture and writing in Africa during the pre-colonial, colonial, and post-independence periods, particularly in areas where oral tradition held sway prior to European colonization. Topics include the history of the book, the history of writing including the hieroglyphics of Egypt, the influence of missionaries on reading and writing skills in Africa, and the creation of written native languages in Sub-Saharan Africa.

This article investigates the English underground press in the later Stuart period. Following the end of pre-publication licensing in 1695, the ongoing threat of government reprisals meant that controversial political and religious tracts continued to be printed in secret; yet the survival of the underground press into this period has been neglected in recent works of political, religious, social, cultural and literary history. The dominant view, established by some of the most influential book historians of the past century, is that the materials necessary for a study of secret printing do not survive. This article argues otherwise. Through a detailed case-tudy of the career of one such printer, David Edwards, it illustrates how the clandestine activities of a subset of printers helped shape contemporary debate. Combining historical and bibliographical modes of investigation, this article explores the fundamental mechanics of how controversial tracts, written and printed in secret, reached the public. It examines Edwards's training under the Whig printer Thomas Braddyll, his subsequent links to the exiled Jacobite court, the clandestine techniques he used to disguise his activities, and the authorship of books he printed. These included the use of indentures and tokens to ensure against imposters and tweaking copy texts to mask distinctive stylistic tics. The article concludes by arguing that the vibrant culture of partisan print associated with the later Stuart public sphere was enabled not solely by the demise of pre-publication licensing in 1695, but also by the persistence of the underground press. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article, developed within the framework of the FILO: CyT (UBA) programming, attempts to generate discussion on the theoretical-methodological foundation of its own object of study. In researching Between what was edited and what was read in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, a number of topics are addressed to reflect on the History of Publishing, the History of Graphic Design and the History of Reading in the same faculty during the period 1896-2019. In this context, the following topics are developed for future discussion, articulated by the History of Written Culture: the construction of an indispensable theory to carry out the project, the variety and diversity of the existing documentary sources in the faculty, and the methodology appropriate for this problem, among other aspects. Finally, it is pointed out the need to search for a conceptual configuration in order to compare it, discuss it and adapt it to other universities in Argentina interested in these cultural studies, high lighting the importance of establishing similar conceptual models to analyze the History of Publishing, Graphic Design and Reading in the university sphere, in academic settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since its foundation in 1896, the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (FFyL-UBA) has committed to publishing books, having built a catalog of nearly 1500 titles throughout its history. The article presents an analysis of this books editorial production from three perspectives: intellectual creation, materiality, and dissemination-circulation, each of which contains different study variables. We used quantitative and interpretative methods and the concrete data allowed us to attempt an answer to the assumptions arising from a general view of the problem. Two decades were analyzed, one from the last century (1990) and another from the 21st century (2010). We concluded that, although the changes in the editorial production of the FFyLUBA in the two decades have both significant and minor variations in the three perspectives analyzed, they have allowed us to identify some trends and constant behaviors in the organization of its publications. An increase in production from one decade to another was identified. We observed a decrease in mono-authorship, the predominant form of writing in the 1990s, while the number of collaborating authors increased in the 2010s. All Faculty's disciplines are present on its editorial catalog, although some carry more weight than others. In the two decades the use of more compelling and attractive titles as well as subtitles to guide on the subject is evident. The general and specialized collections in both decades proved to be a consolidated publishing practice as 80% of the production was published within one of them. The preferred medium continues to be the print and in the last decade there has been a clear tendency to standardize the publishing house stamp in the imprint and to give a more attractive graphic presentation. There was a considerable dissemination and circulation of the works while different strategies to disseminate publications were observed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay reimagines the centuries-long process through which printed objects in the Anglophone world became powerfully associated with white supremacy and ideologies of racial hierarchy. It argues that the racialization of print was not inevitable but contingent, uneven, and always contested; that it continually shifted, varying widely from place to place; and that it occurred in relation to the medium's changing associations with such other unstable social and ideological categories as class, gender, religion, and nation. The essay proposes two phases for this historical process: the establishment phase , during which the hyperelite medium of the printed codex acquired an association with white authorship in the early modern period; and the essentializing phase , during which, over the course of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a printed book by a single author came to be understood as capable of representing the essential nature of an entire race of people. Samson Occom and Phillis Wheatley wrote during the shift between these two phases of print's racialization. A comparative case study of Occom's and Wheatley's relationships to book publication suggests that early modern social and class hierarchies were more important to their navigation of the medium's racialized dynamics than is commonly granted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Al inicio del siglo XX, surgieron proyectos democratizadores del acceso al libro, acom¬pañados por procesos de urbanización y escolarización que signaron y modelaron a los “futuros públicos lectores”. En la construcción de la historia del libro, la edición y la lectura en la Argentina, una serie de investigaciones están aportado nuevos enfo¬ques y reflexiones, lo que posibilita estudiar el cómo, el cuándo, los porqué, los usos del libro y los modos de la lectura, así como de las circunstancias y las estrategias desplegadas por la actividad editorial, la relación autor/editor, la comercialización, el perfil de los lectores y las prácticas que permitieron la apropiación de la cultura de lo impreso. Tomando esto como punto de partida el proyecto La cultura impresa en los avisos publicitarios de la prensa gráfica en la Argentina durante el siglo XX. Alcances y proyecciones se propone indagar acerca de algunas de las múltiples razones por las que hombres y mujeres han leído, dirigiendo la mirada a los avisos y folletos publicitarios en la comercialización de libros = At the beginning of the 20th century, there were emerged democratizing projects of book access emerging, accompanied by processes of urbanization and schooling that signed and shaped the “future read¬ers”. In the construction of book history, edition and reading in Argentina, a series of researches are bringing new approaches and reflections, which makes it possible to study how, when, why of the uses of the book and the modes of reading, as well as the circumstances and strategies deployed by the editorial activity, the author / publisher relationship, the marketing, the profile of the readers and the practices that allowed the appropriation of the print culture. Taking this as a starting point the project The print culture in advertisements of the printing press in Argentina during the twentieth century. Scopes and projections seeks to inquire about some of the many reasons men and women have read, looking at advertising notices and booklets in book’s marketing.

The leading Puritan divine, Richard Baxter (1615–1691), left behind a complex range of manuscripts at his death. Preparatory work for the forthcoming Oxford University Press editions of his autobiography, Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, and of his complete correspondence has uncovered a lacuna in this manuscript collection and its subsequent cataloguing. This has implications for our understanding of Baxter's manuscript legacy, his intellectual interests, and his writing and publishing practices in the final decades of his life. It also provides a glimpse into authorial and press practice in the late seventeenth century, enriching our understanding of book history and the relationship between manuscript and print at that time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay describes the publications of Leonard Becket, stationer and publisher, and presents a history of his publishing business. Becket built this business upon the success of the miscellany, A help to discourse; or, A miscellany of merriment. The article outlines the gradual development and expansion of A help to discourse through its many editions. This development appears in the light of Becket's eclectic and distinctive publications. The essay draws attention to the shared features of this corpus, notably the pervasive memento mori consciousness, the conduct book genre, the duodecimo form, the use of expansions as a marketing ploy, and the insistent tendency to appropriate contemporary verse for illustrative purposes. The essay first describes the various books that Becket sponsored and then offers a company history, one that explains how the enterprise felt its way towards the creation of its most valuable commodity and how it thereafter exploited its success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copyright of Historia: Questoes & Debates is the property of Universidade Federal do Parana and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

At the beginning of the 20th century, there were emerged democratizing projects of book access emerging, accompanied by processes of urbanization and schooling that signed and shaped the "future readers". In the construction of book history, edition and reading in Argentina, a series of researches are bringing new approaches and reflections, which makes it possible to study how, when, why of the uses of the book and the modes of reading, as well as the circumstances and strategies deployed by the editorial activity, the author/publisher relationship, the marketing, the profile of the readers and the practices that allowed the appropriation of the print culture. Taking this as a starting point the project The print culture in advertisements of the printing press in Argentina during the twentieth century. Scopes and projections seeks to inquire about some of the many reasons men and women have read, looking at advertising notices and booklets in book's marketing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Novelty held a special attraction for book buyers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but new texts carried more risk for the publisher than titles already proven to be good sellers. Canny bookseller-publishers therefore adopted a publishing strategy that would benefit from the commercial safety of proven sellers while simultaneously exploiting the cachet of the ‘new’. They could maximise the sales potential of a book by reprinting an already market-tested text but repackaging it with new and improved ingredients, often provided by the text's original author. Such enlargements were never left unpublicised on the title page which, as the primary means of marketing texts in the early modern book trade, had to function both as a dust-jacket-style advertisement intended for bookstall browsers, and as a discrete advertisement posted remote from the physical volume. Given the safe bet of reprints and the marketability of new material, the promotional nature of title pages therefore necessitated revised, augmented, or otherwise enlarged editions to be produced by the author and bookseller to attract attention and sales. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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An essay is presented examining the historical period of the Enlightenment through the metaphor of print culture, particularly focusing on the index. Topics addressed include the close association between the Enlightenment and the expansion of book publishing, an overview of the growth and features of 18th-century bibliographic learning and scholarship, and the emergence of what the authors call the "Enlightenment Index" as a distinct phenomenon.

The article discusses the woman poet and prophet Joanna Southcott's efforts to publish and print prophecies in the early 19th century England, including her communications with the divine Spirit. An overview of the role that England's print culture played in the development of Christian literature in the country is provided.

The article discusses controversy surrounding who would write the biography of Methodist Church founder John Wesley after his death in 1791, focusing on how the controversy impacted authority within the Methodist Church. Other topics include information on the print culture of the Methodists, the relationship between the Executors of Wesley's will including John Whitehead and Thomas Coke, and how Wesley's will impacted the Methodist Church's publisher, the Book Room.

While the cultural trajectories of the Celtic language communities have some broad similarities in the long term, their histories in the medium term were quite different. The article approaches this issue through a comparative analysis of the print cultures of Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Breton and Irish in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The approach is both quantitative and qualitative, surveying total production in the four languages as well as looking at the presence and absence of different genres in the different languages. It also examines diaspora publishing in America and Australia. The different patterns are explained primarily in terms of the nature and extent of institutional church support for publishing in those languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of the 'complete drawing book' in mid-eighteenth-century England was a remarkable phenomenon. Launched by print sellers as a new educational commodity, this particular type of drawing book exhibited both commercial acumen and cultural ambition by presenting a comprehensive programme to satisfy public desire for drawing instruction. It also embodied a subtle process of cultural assimilation and influence. Various kinds of pictorial model were assembled from diverse sources and organised in a way that visualised the 'hierarchy of genres'. The complete drawing books thus played a role in shaping public perception of what constituted art within that hierarchy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides an overview of the contributions to a special issue on “Postcolonial Print Cultures”. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In this article I reexamine eighteenth century "character" by rearticulating it with the period's media ecologies. I argue that Britons perceived a particularly close relationship between familiar letters and character, and that the study of published familiar correspondence has the potential to reveal eighteenth-century character as a fundamentally relational form of identity. To make my case I discuss the mediations of character that governed the publication of Alexander Pope's familiar correspondence on a massive scale (1735-42). By paying attention not only to the text of the letters but also to the portrait engravings and other visual elements that were integral to the letters' publication and reception, I show that character in the eighteenth century was invariably linked to the media forms through which it circulated: character could not be thought apart from the technologies of inscription or imprinting, the reading materials, and the infrastructures that facilitated its inscription and dissemination. However Pope's character was formulated, it therefore inevitably emerged as an interface between media forms and their users. In articulating the print publication of Pope's familiar letters with the formulation and circulation of character, I aim to show that mediation was fundamental to the very constitution of character in eighteenth century Britain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the origins of the practice of book reviewing in England prior to the 1749 founding of the Monthly Review. As early as the 1660s, periodicals contained various kinds of notices (like advertisements or publication announcements) and reviews of new works that aimed to inform readers of the existence and content of particular books. An examination of a broad variety of these notices, which vary in sophistication from rudimentary to refined, reveals a range of evaluative discussions that provides a glimpse of contemporary reading tastes and habits. The attention to books in periodicals also demonstrates the close connections between the press and the book trades: many writers and publishers seem to have been encouraging public attention to books, marketing books published by themselves or their associates, or capitalizing on reader interest in newly published works to sell periodicals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This project aims at studying various aspects of print culture present in the realm of books and reading in Argentina since the may revolution until the mid twentieth century, especially from the point of view of the new History of culture and its relationship with Library Science and Publishing. Documents that characteristically belong to the fields of Institutional History and Micro-history will be analyzed. These include: edicts and announcements, advertisements, newspapers and magazines, typographic fonts and impositions, the bibliographic materials that influenced the political thought of the time, printers' records and their relationship with the world of publishing as found in publishers' archives, among other "lesser printed matter" that Political History has ignored so far. A series of disciplines and their convergence are involved: literary studies, gender studies, library science studies, historic studies, and political science studies. The analysis and intercrossing of these domains, typical of the Humanities and the Social Sciences, will frame the object of study within a wider discipline: the History of Publishing and Reading in Argentina since 1810 until 1950. The methodology of apprehending the diverse cultural records, without leaving aside quantitative approaches, will allow a qualitative study of these facts, and, in some occasions, the application of the so-called "trace method", in the reconstruction of textual representations and practices. In the same way, this research will focus on citizens' participation, especially in the public and institutional spheres in urban settings, where the polysemantic structure of print culture is manifested more intensely. Within this context, the project aims at giving wider visibility the extraordinary richness of print culture of the period being studied, and, on the other hand, at linking the world of publishing with the world of reading and its main actors: readers and their abilities to apprehend print discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study considers the unimaginable size of the losses of printed materials as it appears from an analysis of early eighteenth-century official bookshop inventories at Groningen, of setting off local seventeenth and eighteenth-century university records of doctoral dissertations and numbers of students defending course disputations against the recorded survivals, and of setting off the number of known printers of the period and the total number of years when they worked against their preserved production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]