During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nāṣīf al-Yāzijī and Buṭrus al-Bustānī, of later nahḍa fame. In a region where presses were still not prevale…
Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
From the early 16th century through to the later 17th, governments, institutions, and individuals learned to use cheaply-produced printed texts to inform, entertain, and persuade. This collection of essays examines the developing role of popular printed texts in the first two ce…
Denis Janot is the prime example of a vernacular printer espousing the highest standards of French Renaissance printing, highly influential in the adoption of roman type to the printing of vernacular material, and a key figure in the development of book illustration. This biblio…
Denis Janot is the prime example of a vernacular printer espousing the highest standards of French Renaissance printing, highly influential in the adoption of roman type to the printing of vernacular material, and a key figure in the development of book illustration. This biblio…
Zusammenfassung: "A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation's 500th anniversary."--Amazon.com Zusammenfassung: When Martin Luther posted his "theses" on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protestin…
Introduction: The problem of genesis -- The formative phase of Arab printing : a historical overview -- Printers and publishers -- Books, journals, cartes de visite -- Diffusion channels -- Advancing circulation -- Reading and readers -- Reading in public -- Conclusion
In a brief historic moment, printing presses, publishing ventures, a periodical press, circulation networks, and a mass readership came into being all at once in the Middle East, where none had previously existed, with ramifications in every sphere of the community's life. Among…
Translators' contribution to the vitality of textual production in the Renaissance is still often vastly underestimated. Drawing on a wide variety of sources published in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, German, English, and Zapotec, this volume brings a global perspective t…
"Since Gutenberg's time, every aspect of print has gradually changed. But the advent of computational media has exponentially increased the pace, transforming how books are composed, designed, edited, typeset, distributed, sold, and read. N. Katherine Hayles traces the emergence…
