A History of the Book in America, vol. 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880

摘要

This volume, the third of five in a series, synthesizes and showcases the multifaceted scholarship that now characterizes historical studies of the book. Until the last quarter of the twentieth century, antiquarian accounts of printing equipment and biographies of leading publishers and their firms dominated the inwardly looking field of book history. The Industrial Book, in contrast, opens outward, offering a much broader purview that blends insights from historical subfields dealing with business, labor, communication, culture, religion, audiences-and technology.rnThe first chapter locates technology in the foreground. Historians not familiar with the technical processes involved in producing books-typecasting, papermaking, platemaking, press design and operation, binding, and illustration-will appreciate Michael Winship's accessible discussion of developments in the mid-1800s.