The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2: Enlightenment and Expansion 1707–1800

Stephen Brown; Warren McDougall

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2011

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland, Volume 2

Enlightenment and Expansion 1707–1800

Stephen Brown and Warren McDougall

In the series The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748628964

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About this book

Studies the book trade during the age of Fergusson and Burns

Over 40 leading scholars come together in this volume to scrutinise the development and impact of printing, binding, bookselling, libraries, textbooks, distribution and international trade, copyright, piracy, literacy, music publication, women readers, children's books and cookery books.The 18th century saw Scotland become a global leader in publishing, both through landmark challenges to the early copyright legislation and through the development of intricate overseas markets that extended across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Scots in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Dublin and Philadelphia amassed fortunes while bringing to international markets classics in medicine and economics by Scottish authors, as well as such enduring works of reference as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Entrepreneurship and a vigorous sense of nationalism brought Scotland from financial destitution at the time of the 1707 Union to extraordinary wealth by the 1790s. Publishing was one of the country's elite new industries.

Key Features

Discusses copyright and piracy with new data at a time when intellectual property laws are returning to 18th-century precedents
Provides new understandings of Scotland's early modern readerships, including women's libraries, music literacy, and the way in which Scots found in the growth of literacy an international marketplace for intellectual property
Original scholarship and previously unpublished source material on secular Gaelic print
16 exclusive full colour images of rare Scottish bindings from private collections, 25 additional colour plates and 60 black and white illustrations

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
PLATES Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	x
TABLES Publicly Available Download PDF	xii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiv
CHRONOLOGY Publicly Available Download PDF	xvi
INTRODUCTION Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter One THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN TRADE Warren McDougall, John Morris, Stephen W. Brown, William Zachs, Brian Hillyard, Joe Rock, Chris Fleet, Iain Gordon Brown and Anette Hagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Chapter Two DEVELOPING A MARKETPLACE FOR BOOKS Warren McDougall, Richard Ovenden, William Zachs, Michael Moss, Iain Beavan, Ronald Black, Richard B. Sher and Stephen W. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Chapter Three INTELLECTUAL EXCHANGES AND SCOTTISH AUTHORS ABROAD Esther Mijers, Thomas Ahnert, Stephen W. Brown, Gilles Robel, Iain Gordon Brown, Howard Gaskill, Beatrice Teissier, Warren McDougall, Terrence O. Moore and Fiona A. Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Chapter Four THE POPULAR PRESS AND THE PUBLIC READER Alexander Murdoch, Matthew D. Eddy, Terrence O. Moore, Roger L. Emerson, Murray C. T. Simpson, K. A. Manley, Stephen W. Brown, Martin Moonie, John Scally, Iain Beavan, Gordon Pentland, Heather Holmes, Catherine Brown and Brian Alderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Chapter Five PUBLISHING THE ENLIGHTENMENT Mark Towsey, Murray C. T. Simpson, Ann Matheson, Peter Garside, Richard B. Sher, Fiona Macdonald, Heather Holmes, Iain Gordon Brown, David Shuttleton, Stephen W. Brown and Warren McDougall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	421
Chapter Six SCOTTISHNESS AND THE BOOK TRADE Marina Dossena, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Christopher MacLachlan, G. Ross Roy, David Johnson and Ronald Black Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	613
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	650

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 688
Illustrations
- Other: 60 B/W illustrations 41 colour illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

eBook

Published: November 30, 2011
ISBN: 9780748628964