407 research outputs found
Poems and letters /
No full textThe illustrations are albumen photographs.Signatures: [a]⁴, b⁸ c⁴ D-3G⁴."Chiswick Press:--Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane."--Colophon.Mode of access: Internet.Library's copy inscribed on second front free endpaper.Binding: calfskin; gilt rules along edges of boards; turn-ins gilt
The Old Printer and the Modern Press
No full textCharles Knight's The Old Printer was first published in 1854 and is partly a biography of William Caxton and partly an account of the development of the printing press and its role in English literature from the fifteenth century. William Caxton was not only the first printer in England, but also a prolific translator and importer of books. He established a printing press at Westminster and among the books printed there were Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and The Subtil Histories and Fables of Esop. Knight describes Elizabethan reading habits and traces the development of the types of books, papers and magazines that were most popular with the reading public in the mid-nineteenth century. The author is particularly interested in the availability of cheap popular literature as he regards this as an indication of the democratisation of society.</jats:p
Lay help : the church's present need : a paper read at St. Mary's Schools, West Brompton, on the evening of November 17th, 1870 /
No full textProvenance: Inscribed on t.p. "With the Writer's kind regards.""Published by request."Includes bibliographical references.Mode of access: Internet.Talbot collection of British pamphlets
Jakob Klöss: The printer of Decsi’s adagia- a printer and publisher in Bátfa
No full textThe author examines the reason why the press of the one-time Upper-Hungarian
town Bártfa (today Bardejov, Slovakia) owned by Jakob Klöss was chosen in 1598 to print Baranyai
Decsi’s Adagia, his third book to appear in Hungary. His former two works both dedicated to the
Transylvanian Prince Sigismund Báthory unlike his Adagia which was addressed by the author to
Georgius Warkocs were published in two different Transylvanian towns. It was very likely his person
that connected Baranyai Decsi and the printer of Bártfa. He was akin to several noble families resident
in Upper Hungary who financially supported a series of books issued by the printer Jakob
Klöss. It appears that it was to the advantage of Baranyai Decsi’s proverb-collection that it was issued
by a competent printer in a well-equipped office also supplied with Greek types. The author
also gives a reconstruction of the printing types used in Adagia
Author and printer in Victorian England
No full textAuthor and Printer in Victorian England demonstrates that printing technology shapes texts. The technology involved was a nineteenth-century revolution in printing methods; the texts were classic literary works by Victorian authors. What was at stake was textual control: who would decide how the text would read - author, compositor, printer's reader, or publisher? In a unique fusion of literary history and printing history, Allan C. Dooley explores the interactions between individual authors and their publishers and printers. He takes the reader through each stage of a work's development, illustrating how authors attempted to perfect and protect their writings from compositional manuscript through stereotyped reprints. His analysis includes details of a wide range of technical innovations and changes in practices in the printing of books between the development of printing machines in the 1830s and 1840s and the introduction of the Linotype in the 1890s. Drawing on the experiences of leading Victorian authors, he shows how nineteenth-century printing practices both enhanced and diminished writers' abilities to control texts. He reveals that much more was under their control than has commonly been believed and that many authors took advantage of printing technologies in order to gain and maintain control over the texts of their works. But new kinds of errors and new sources of inaccuracy were introduced by the technology as well. One little-known but surprising fact pointed out by Dooley: Victorian authors frequently saw only one set of proofs, which they had to correct with great speed and without their manuscripts in hand. Author and Printer in Victorian England reaches some surprising and controversial conclusions, occasionally touching on current debates about the theory and practice of scholarly editing. Groundbreaking in its scholarship, it provides a basis for future work
Jack Lemon and the Landfall Press : An Exhibition of Prints by 10 Contemporary Artists
No full textLooking at the role of a master printer and of the Landfall Press, the author outlines Lemon's career
Te Deum laudamus /
No full textTe Deum laudamus text incorporated in the 29 color plates; "Description of the plates" on 9 pages at end.On title page: Emily Faithfull, printer & publisher in ordinary to Her Majesty. Victoria Press, Princes St., Hanover Square.The English translation is from the Book of Common Prayer.Mode of access: Internet.Library's copy had presentation inscription by the illuminator.Binding: gold stamped blue cloth binding
The Old-time Printer
No full textvi, 18 pages : illustrations ; 65 mm (6.4 x 5 cm). This book was handset in 6 pt. Bulmer with Notes set in 6 pt. Baskerville. Printed by F.X. Harrigan at the Xavier Press in a limited edition of 175 copies. Bound by Don Brady. --colophon. Foreword by the printer. Text is copy of an address Twain delivered in New York City to commemorate Benjamin Franklin\u27s birthday in 1886. Frontispiece is a mounted reproduction of a US postage stamp which included a portrait of Mark Twain. Ten cent stamp originally issued 1940. Title page printed in black and red. Bound in brown cloth with title/author embossed in gold. In mounted pocket on page [3] of cover are two small type samples, Minion 7 pt., and Long Primer, 10 pt. type. One of the Miniature Book Society\u27s 1989 Distinguished Book Award Winners. Library has copy no. 59, signed by the printer. Shelved in the Special Collections Miniature Book Collection.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/specialcollections_books_miniaturebooks/1002/thumbnail.jp
The Press of the Royal Institution
No full textThe essay offers the first detailed account of the Press of the Royal Institution, established in 1801 in order to print the recently launched Journals of the Royal Institution as well as lecture syllabuses, other pedagogical works and a wide range of administrative and promotional documents. Analysing these diverse outputs, the essay also discusses the equipment and finances of the Printing Office, the people associated with it and the symbolism of the Press as an expression of the Institution’s ambitions and public image-building. The relationship with other London printers and booksellers is addressed, as are contemporary developments in printing technology and politically-motivated legislation to regulate the print trade. Later sections explain the reasons for the premature closure of the Printing Office in 1804 and chart its long-term legacy through the work of the printer (and later publisher and author) William Savage and his various collaborators, who included the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin and, briefly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.The essay offers the first detailed account of the Press of the Royal Institution, established in 1801 in order to print the recently launched Journals of the Royal Institution as well as lecture syllabuses, other pedagogical works and a wide range of administrative and promotional documents. Analysing these diverse outputs, the essay also discusses the equipment and finances of the Printing Office, the people associated with it and the symbolism of the Press as an expression of the Institution’s ambitions and public image-building. The relationship with other London printers and booksellers is addressed, as are contemporary developments in printing technology and politically-motivated legislation to regulate the print trade. Later sections explain the reasons for the premature closure of the Printing Office in 1804 and chart its long-term legacy through the work of the printer (and later publisher and author) William Savage and his various collaborators, who included the bibliographer Thomas Frognall Dibdin and, briefly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Historical regulation of Victoria's water sector: A case of government failure?
No full textThis paper analyses the role of government failure in Victoria’s water sector between 1905 and 1984 as evidenced in the rise of in-stream salinity. It will be shown that high levels of salinity can, in part, be attributed to regulatory failure for two reasons. First, the method of water allocation, a compulsory minimum charge with the marginal cost of water being zero, encouraged over watering, resulting in increased water tables via groundwater recharge. Second, the government did not provide adequate finance for construction of appropriate removal of saline drainage water, and thereby allowed increasing in-stream salinity.externalities, government failure, institutions, salinity, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
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