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This series encompasses books on aspects of publishing and printing history - on the impact of print and the means by which the printed word was prepared for public consumption - from Caxton to the present day. Over the next few years volumes will appear on topics ranging from book production in the fifteenth century to the exploitation of mass-market fiction in the nineteenth century. There will also be major editions of correspondence between authors and publishers. All are important for students of literature and cultural history as well as for bibliographers and historians of publishing and printing.

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2 results in Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History

Print Culture in Renaissance Italy
  • The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470–1600
  • Brian Richardson
  • Published online:
    01 June 2011
    Print publication:
    16 June 1994
  • The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory material or commentary. Brian Richardson here examines the Renaissance circulation and reception of works by earlier writers including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and Ariosto, as well as popular contemporary works of entertainment. In so doing he sheds light on the impact of the new printing and editing methods on Renaissance culture, including the standardisation of vernacular Italian and its spread to new readers and writers, the establishment of new standards in textual criticism, and the increasing rivalry between the two cities on which this study is chiefly focused, Venice and Florence.

The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England
  • John Feather
  • Published online:
    04 August 2010
    Print publication:
    19 September 1985
  • It was not until the eighteenth century that books became widely available throughout the whole of England. Publishing remained largely London-based, but the provincial market grew steadily in importance. In this study, drawing on a wide range of primary sources, John Feather traces the economic, social and cultural forces which made possible this fundamental change, and assesses the impact of the metropolitan printed word on provincial society. He discusses the important issues of copyright and piracy; the various financial arrangements between booksellers and publishers; and above all the elaborate distribution and agency systems that enabled London publishers to retain their effective stranglehold by penetrating the provincial market at every level.