Title Printing history and cultural change : fashioning the modern English text in eighteenth-century Britain / Richard Wendorf

Edition First edition Published Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and color) Summary 'Printing History and Cultural Change' explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters, italics and small capitals in English books, heralding the advent of a cleaner, and smoother, printed page. It studies a range of texts and the changing roles of authors, booksellers, printers and the reading public Notes This edition also issued in print: 2022 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed February 28, 2023) Subject Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Printing -- United States -- History -- 18th century Printing -- Style manuals -- History -- 18th century Capitalization -- History -- 18th century Italic type -- History -- 18th century Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century Capitalization. Intellectual life. Italic type. Printing. Publishers and publishing. SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Subject Great Britain. United States. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191924583 019192458X 9780192653116 0192653113 9780192653123 0192653121

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