Author: James Lackington
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Confessions of J. Lackington
Author: James Lackington
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Confessions of J. Lackington .. 2nd Ed
Author: James Lackington
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Memoirs of the Forty-five Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller
Author: James Lackington
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Vanity Fair and the Celestial City
Author: Isabel Rivers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254263X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019254263X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
In John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the pilgrims cannot reach the Celestial City without passing through Vanity Fair, where everything is bought and sold. In recent years there has been much analysis of commerce and consumption in Britain during the long eighteenth century, and of the dramatic expansion of popular publishing. Similarly, much has been written on the extraordinary effects of the evangelical revivals of the eighteenth century in Britain, Europe, and North America. But how did popular religious culture and the world of print interact? It is now known that religious works formed the greater part of the publishing market for most of the century. What religious books were read, and how? Who chose them? How did they get into people's hands? Vanity Fair and the Celestial City is the first book to answer these questions in detail. It explores the works written, edited, abridged, and promoted by evangelical dissenters, Methodists both Arminian and Calvinist, and Church of England evangelicals in the period 1720 to 1800. Isabel Rivers also looks back to earlier sources and forward to the continued republication of many of these works well into the nineteenth century. The first part is concerned with the publishing and distribution of religious books by commercial booksellers and not-for-profit religious societies, and the means by which readers obtained them and how they responded to what they read. The second part shows that some of the most important publications were new versions of earlier nonconformist, episcopalian, Roman Catholic, and North American works. The third part explores the main literary kinds, including annotated bibles, devotional guides, exemplary lives, and hymns. Building on many years' research into the religious literature of the period, Rivers discusses over two hundred writers and provides detailed case studies of popular and influential works.
The Romantic Movement and Methodism
Author: Frederick C. Gill
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532602901
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
“As to the main subject, Methodism is still a rich quarry. Time, far from obliterating its memory, serves only to emphasize more clearly neglected aspects and accentuate main features. No evangel can live if cut from its roots. It is wise, therefore, to recall that early Methodist faith and practice were rooted and grounded in a rich cultural and devotional tradition.” — From the preface
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532602901
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
“As to the main subject, Methodism is still a rich quarry. Time, far from obliterating its memory, serves only to emphasize more clearly neglected aspects and accentuate main features. No evangel can live if cut from its roots. It is wise, therefore, to recall that early Methodist faith and practice were rooted and grounded in a rich cultural and devotional tradition.” — From the preface
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : Book rarities
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category : Book rarities
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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London Booksellers and American Customers
Author: James Raven
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
In 1994, James Raven encountered a letterbook from the Charleston Library Society detailing the ordering, processing, and shipping of texts from London booksellers to their American customers. The 120 letters, covering the period 1758-1811, provided unique material for understanding the business of London booksellers (for whom very little correspondence has survived) and Raven decided to publish an annotated edition of the letters. The letterbook, reproduced in its entirety, forms an appendix to the present volume, but Raven's study has blossomed from a relatively narrow examination of booksellers and their customers to a larger exploration of the role of books and institutions such as the Library Society in the formation of elite cultural identity on the fringes of empire. As a result, this meticulously researched book has much to offer scholars of gentry culture and community in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world as well as historians of the book--Publisher's Description.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570034060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
In 1994, James Raven encountered a letterbook from the Charleston Library Society detailing the ordering, processing, and shipping of texts from London booksellers to their American customers. The 120 letters, covering the period 1758-1811, provided unique material for understanding the business of London booksellers (for whom very little correspondence has survived) and Raven decided to publish an annotated edition of the letters. The letterbook, reproduced in its entirety, forms an appendix to the present volume, but Raven's study has blossomed from a relatively narrow examination of booksellers and their customers to a larger exploration of the role of books and institutions such as the Library Society in the formation of elite cultural identity on the fringes of empire. As a result, this meticulously researched book has much to offer scholars of gentry culture and community in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world as well as historians of the book--Publisher's Description.
Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington
Author: James Lackington
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Memoirs of the Forty-five First Years of the Life of James Lackington, Bookseller
Author: James Lackington
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James Lackington ... A new edition, corrected and much enlarged, etc
Author: James LACKINGTON
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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