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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University Park, PA :
Penn State University Press,
[2022]
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jj.5233052 |
Table of Contents:
- 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