Leslie Howsam: 2 books
Old Books and New Histories
An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2006
Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction,...
Kegan Paul – A Victorian Imprint
Publishers, Books and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1999
The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and...