TY  - GEN
T1  - Publishing Plates : Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture
A1  - Makala, Jeffrey M.
LA  - English
PP  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1380734564
AB  - First realized commercially in the late eighteenth century, stereotyping--the creation of solid printing plates cast from moveable type--fundamentally changed the way in which books were printed. Publishing Plates chronicles the technological and cultural shifts that resulted from the introduction of this technology in the United States.The commissioning of plates altered shop practices, distribution methods, and even the author-publisher relationship. Drawing on archival records, Jeffrey M. Makala traces the first uses of stereotyping in Philadelphia in 1812, its adoption by printers in New York and Philadelphia, and its effects on the trade. He looks closely at the printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers who watched small, regional, artisan-based printing traditions rapidly evolve, clearing the way for the industrialized publishing industry that would emerge in the United States at midcentury. Through case studies of the publisher Mathew Carey and the American Bible Society, one of the first publishers of cheap Bibles, Makala explores the origins of the American publishing industry and American mass media. In addition, Makala examines changes in the notion of authorship, copyright, and language and their effects on writers and literary circles, giving examples from the works and lives of Herman Melville, Sojourner Truth, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, among others. Incorporating perspectives from the fields of book history, the history of technology, material culture studies, and American studies, this book presents a rich, detailed history of an innovation that transformed American culture.
OP  - 214
CN  - Z252
SN  - 9780271094793
SN  - 0271094796
SN  - 9780271094786
SN  - 0271094788
KW  - Carey, Mathew, : 1760-1839.
KW  - American Bible Society : History : 19th century.
KW  - Carey, Mathew, : 1760-1839
KW  - American Bible Society
KW  - Stereotyping (Printing) : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Electrotyping : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Printing industry : United States : History : 19th century.
KW  - Stéréotypie : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Galvanotypie : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - Industries graphiques : États-Unis : Histoire : 19e siècle.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
KW  - Electrotyping
KW  - Printing industry
KW  - Stereotyping (Printing)
KW  - United States
KW  - 1800-1899
KW  - American Bible Society.
KW  - Edgar Allan Poe.
KW  - Herman Melville.
KW  - Mathew Carey.
KW  - Sojourner Truth.
KW  - Solomon Northup.
KW  - Stereotyping.
KW  - William Thoreau.
KW  - William Wells Brown.
KW  - electrotyping.
KW  - printers.
KW  - printing history.
KW  - publishers.
KW  - publishing history.
KW  - typefounders.
KW  - History
ER  -