List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Introduction." Enlightenment Everywhere": Locating the Reader in the Scottish Enlightenment; Part One Encountering Enlightenment; I." One of the Greatest Ornaments to a Gentleman": Private Libraries; II." A Powerful Means of Improving the Neighbourhood": Subscription Libraries; III." Vice and Obscenity Dreadfully Propagated": Circulating Libraries; IV." A Taste for Reading in the Country": Religious and Endowed Libraries; Part Two Experiencing Enlightenment; V." This Map of my Mind": Recovering Historical Reading Experiences
Summary
The Handpress World explores the impact of the invention of printing by moveable type from the first experiments of the incunabula age through to the end of the eighteenth century. In this crucial period of book history the new technology both transformed established markets for scholarly and religious literature and found a new public through the rise of the pamphlet and later the newspaper. The series will investigate every aspect of this cultural transformation, from the promotion in print of the great intellectual movements of the day through to the birth of the public library. --Book Jacket
Notes
Based on the author's thesis, Ph. D., St. Andrews University, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-360) and index
