This dissertation investigates the evolving regulations and changing socio-political influence of cheap print in eighteenth-century Scotland, both in terms of its production and distribution. Through a detailed analysis of court records, business and personal correspondence, as well as examples of cheap print itself, it argues that an integrated (if loosely defined) “British” book culture only slowly emerged between 1680 and 1820. During this period changes in the economic makeup, political identity and literary culture of Scotland meant that ideas and opinions became publicized in a variety of new and innovative forms. These new ways of printing could say volumes about opinions on print regulation, copyright, and the continuing role of pol...
While news from abroad has attracted increasing attention from scholars studying the print market in...
The context of this thesis is the growth in size and significance of the St Andrews University Libra...
This essay explores the engagement of the press and printers in the military campaigns of the sevent...
Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a sign...
This article summarises the origins and development of the early modern book trade of Scotland and h...
Adam Fox, The Press and the People. Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500-1785, Oxford Universit...
What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its ...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press an...
Printing has been one of Scotland's most significant industries since it was introduced over 500 yea...
This article examines the social position of printers in Bordeaux in the second half of the eighteen...
The widespread presence of the chapbook in Scotland (not to be confused with the Scottish chapbook) ...
Given the scarcity of documentary evidence of royalism among ordinary men and women in Interregnum E...
Thomas Palmelund Johansen: “The Political Economy of the Printing Press. The Value of Knowledge and ...
The University of St. Andrews in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a small and under-fun...
While news from abroad has attracted increasing attention from scholars studying the print market in...
The context of this thesis is the growth in size and significance of the St Andrews University Libra...
This essay explores the engagement of the press and printers in the military campaigns of the sevent...
Alasdair Mann, the noted scholar of book culture in early modern Scotland, has suggested that a sign...
This article summarises the origins and development of the early modern book trade of Scotland and h...
Adam Fox, The Press and the People. Cheap Print and Society in Scotland, 1500-1785, Oxford Universit...
What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its ...
Print and consumption, Commercial ingenuity dominates the history of printing and publishing in Brit...
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press an...
Printing has been one of Scotland's most significant industries since it was introduced over 500 yea...
This article examines the social position of printers in Bordeaux in the second half of the eighteen...
The widespread presence of the chapbook in Scotland (not to be confused with the Scottish chapbook) ...
Given the scarcity of documentary evidence of royalism among ordinary men and women in Interregnum E...
Thomas Palmelund Johansen: “The Political Economy of the Printing Press. The Value of Knowledge and ...
The University of St. Andrews in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a small and under-fun...
While news from abroad has attracted increasing attention from scholars studying the print market in...
The context of this thesis is the growth in size and significance of the St Andrews University Libra...
This essay explores the engagement of the press and printers in the military campaigns of the sevent...