02743nam 2200481 a 450 991078139460332120230721010124.00-8078-6803-5(CKB)2550000000032290(EBL)879962(OCoLC)726826926(Au-PeEL)EBL879962(CaPaEBR)ebr10460908(MiAaPQ)EBC879962(EXLCZ)99255000000003229020061120d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||A history of the book in AmericaVolume 3The industrial book, 1840-1880[electronic resource] /edited by Scott E. Casper ... [et. al.]Chapel Hill, N.C. Published in association with the American Antiquarian Society by the University of North Carolina Pressc20071 online resource (560 p.)A history of the book in America ;v. 3Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-3085-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Manufacturing and book production -- Labor and labor organization -- Authors and literary authorship -- The national book trade system -- The role of government -- Alternative publishing systems -- Periodicals and serial publication -- Ideologies and practices of reading -- Sites of reading -- Cultures of print -- Alternative communication practices and the industrial book.Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and readers. Chapters trace the ascent of the ""industrial book""--a manufactured product arising from the gradual adoption of new printing, binding, and illustration technologies and encompassing the profusion of nineteenth-century printed materials--which relied on nationwide networks of financing, transportation, and communication. In tanHistory of the book in America ;v. 3.Book industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPublishers and publishingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryBook industries and tradeHistoryPublishers and publishingHistoryBooks and readingHistory381/.45002097309034Casper Scott E1521540MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781394603321A history of the book in America3760799UNINA