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...William Noblett This article examines one aspect of crime in the London book trade. It deals with the theft of paper, blank, printed, and manuscript, from seventeen members of the trade and discusses how the thieves attempted to sell the paper to other London tradesmen, primarily cheesemongers...

...Paddy Bullard This article develops recent work by literary historians on miscellany publication, and on the printed miscellanies that were so important and popular for the early eighteenth-century book trade. It offers a history of the form, illustrated by comments made by the Duke of Buckingham...

..., in this regard, reinvents a visual narrative that encompasses some aspects of the text, while entirely creating others.9 By contextualizing editions of  Thomson’s poem in terms of develop- ments in the eighteenth-century book trade, I shall consider the impli- cations of changes in copyright law...

...David Duff Prospectuses, a type of printed advertisement widely used in the eighteenth-century book trade, played a vital but previously unexamined role in the French Revolution controversy, attracting subscribers to political publications and encapsulating their message. Focusing on journal...

... Martin's book allowed him to internalize ideas that he read and that were relevant to his trade; his collection thus offers a case study of the expert reading habits of artisans, including their editorial approaches to texts. The top of the book's first title-page describes the ensuing contents under...

... Scholars of eighteenth-­century print culture have tried in various ways to con- nect transformations in the book trade to the rise of modern literature and criticism; one important strategy has been to look at eighteenth-­century edi- tions of earlier English poetry. Reprints of old works have...

... of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade, 1641 – 1700. Volume I: 1641 – 1670 (Oxford: Oxford Univ., 2006). Pp. 643. $160. £85. ISBN 0-19-818410-7 McKenzie, D. F., and Maureen Bell, eds. A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade, 1641 – 1700. Volume II...

... in accordance with their own caprice. The second issue for Keymer is literary technique. The pillory was a hungry beast. For writers seeking to elude its maw, there were two options. Either one could protect one's identity by deploying the cloak-and-dagger techniques familiar in the underground book trade...

... vols. (London, 1707), 4:sig.A2r. 6.  The conger consists of Thomas Tebb, Theophilus Sanders, Edward Symon, and Francis Clay: all of them seem to be relatively new to the trade in 1716. Clay was apprenticed, according to the British Book Trade Index, in 1708, and Symon in 1711. None appears...

... were popular enough to have lasted through six volumes each and go into reprints. However, determining the authors, editors, and booksellers involved remains one of the major problems facing book-trade historians. The Foundling Hospital for Wit, 6 Volumes (1743–49) There are two distinct...

..., and second, because his wife’s regular habits and good business sense somewhat balanced the impulsiveness and impatience of her husband. Over the next decade this couple enjoyed mod- erate success, becoming veteran booksellers and publishers in the rough- and-tumble world of the London book trade...

.... Among Londoners, sev- eral in the book trade—including John Wilkie, Richard Ware, John New- berry, Archibald Hamilton, Robert Horsfield, William Nicholl, William Johnston, Henry Gardner, Margaret Folingsby, Francis Newberry, and Charles Coles—subscribed, as did the printseller, Carrington Bowls...

... 1 surveys two literary coteries, one not far outside London and the other north of it between Cambridge and Oxford. These rural locations are the sites of literary activity largely ignored by scholars but significant to our under- standing of how manuscript culture and the London book trade...

... and denounce (as the book’s title declares) “this execrable and fraudulent trade” [deezer verfoeijelyke en bedrieglyke Handel]. In the past, the sprawling, heterogeneous character of the book has proved a formidable impediment to readers who attempted to assess and to make sense of its dazzling variety...

...). Fortunately, the book trade itself offered various solutions to readers who had problems accessing print for health or other reasons. Large- print and non- conventional formats designed for reader access, we learn, were one; reading aloud to those who could not due to disability or illness was another...

... function in the abstract both as commodities and as texts.34 Though the trade is of the material form of the book, the discrete book does not matter as much as its ability to be exchanged or stand in for another book, or, in the case of Roxana and Moll Flanders, for other, variant, editions...

... well represented, but scholarship on Mme de Sevigné, J. M. W. Turner, Immanuel Kant, Carl Linnaeus, Scottish architectural history, and the Swiss book trade all made substantial appearances over the years. Many entries were nothing more than a citation, but others came with brief descriptions, mid...

... of A Tale of a Tub . From 1688 to 1708 Swift was writing; publishing a few works of Sir William Temple, which familiarized him with the London book trade (38); walking long distances (Moor Park to London and back, and even Chester to London and back, after crossing the Irish Sea by packet boat), to carry...

.... However, there is much more in this book that will be and should be read by those concerned with Scottish authors and how they produced and marketed their books and themselves, as well as by those concerned with the Scottish book trade and the ways in which enlightened thought was dispersed...

... of evenhandedness, proclaiming an intent to “scoff at this ex- ecrable and fraudulent trade” [tot beschimpinge deezer verfoeijelyke en bedrieglyke handel]. Both books offer a waarschouwing for posterity, but this word in Dutch has a broad range of meanings, from “warning” and “caution” to “notification...