Publishing Plates : Stereotyping and Electrotyping in Nineteenth-Century US Print Culture /

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 o...

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Tác giả chính: Makala, Jeffrey M. (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3642688
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Development and Spread of Stereotyping in Europe and North America
  • 2 Mathew Carey and the Family Bible Marketplace
  • 3 The American Bible Society and the Possibilities of Large-Scale Printing
  • 4 Material Texts: Trade Sales, Reprinting, and the Book Trades
  • 5 Stereotyping in Language, Literature, and Material Culture
  • Epilogue: Abraham Hart and Nineteenth-Century Changes in the Printing Trades
  • Appendix A: First Uses of Stereotype Plates in the United States, by Date and Location
  • Appendix B: "Directions for Repairing Plates," ca. 1820
  • Appendix C: Inventory of Stereotype Plates Belonging to the American Bible Society, 1829
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index