American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette

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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette

American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular

American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular PDF Author: Charles R. Rode
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular

American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular

Norton's Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular PDF Author:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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Co-operative Index to Leading Periodicals

Co-operative Index to Leading Periodicals PDF Author: William Isaac Fletcher
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Indexing

Indexing PDF Author: Committee on Library Organization and Equipment of the National Education Association
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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George Palmer Putnam

George Palmer Putnam PDF Author: Ezra Greenspan
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271040467
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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George Palmer Putnam (1814&–1872) was arguably the most important American publisher of the nineteenth century, a man fully and multiply involved in developments transforming all aspects of literary culture. In this comprehensive cultural biography, Ezra Greenspan offers a wide-ranging account of a rich, productive life lived in print, interrelating Putnam&’s life with the life of his family (one of the most remarkable of its time), with the changing patterns of life in New York City and the nation, and with the institutionalization of modern print culture in nineteenth-century America. Putnam&’s roles and achievements were many: he established and ran the publishing house of G. P. Putnam&’s in New York City; published many of the leading American antebellum writers, male and female, canonical and noncanonical (indeed, was responsible for the first act of American canonization&—of Washington Irving); was the leading publisher of art books in his time and launched Putnam's Monthly; led efforts resulting in the institutionalization of the American publishing industry and was the most outspoken promoter of American authorship; led the fight in the United States for international copyright; was the first American publisher to open an overseas (London) branch office; and for a decade was the leading American agent in the international book trade. Putnam&’s achievements were not limited to his professional sphere: he was also the founding Superintendent of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the official publisher to the New York World's Fair of 1853, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue in New York City during the Civil War, and the organizer of the greatest authors-publishers dinner ever given in nineteenth-century America. Friend and confidant to many of the leading figures of his time, he was not simply a centrally placed publisher but was one of the most centrally placed people of his entire society. This study is based on meticulous archival research into not only Putnam's own papers but into the records of his business, the papers of other family members, and the archives of persons with whom Putnam had contact through business and social networks. In a finely detailed narrative, Greenspan weaves together the story of Putnam's life and that of the development of print culture in nineteenth-century America to offer an ambitious, comprehensive biography of this &"representative American publisher.&"

Publishing Plates

Publishing Plates PDF Author: Jeffrey M. Makala
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271094796
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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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.

Bulletin. Library School

Bulletin. Library School PDF Author: New York State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Publishers' Weekly

Publishers' Weekly PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1068

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