03336oam 22005052 450 991079398510332120211012185155.090-04-41024-410.1163/9789004410244(CKB)4100000009585712(MiAaPQ)EBC5928390(OCoLC)1120907181(nllekb)BRILL9789004410244(EXLCZ)99410000000958571220190912d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe brand of print marketing paratexts in the early English book trade /by Andie SilvaLeiden Boston :BRILL,2020.1 online resource (260 pages)Library of the Written Word;volume7690-04-41023-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Andie Silva -- Acknowledgements /Andie Silva -- List of Illustrations /Andie Silva -- Abbreviations /Andie Silva -- Transcription and Editorial Practice /Andie Silva -- Introduction /Andie Silva -- “In Sundry Hands”: Patronage, Human Capital, and Print Agents as Tastemakers /Andie Silva -- “Read, Reape, and Returne”: Emotional Branding and the Profit of Reading /Andie Silva -- “Before thou begynneth to read”: Visual Consumption as Brand /Andie Silva -- “An Instrument of Iron”: Commodifying Gender and Devotion with Emotional Capital in Queen Elizabeth’s A Godly Meditation of the Soul /Andie Silva -- “Printed in Utopia”: Marketing Genre across a Century /Andie Silva -- Immaterial Labour, Mass Intellectuality, and the New Digital Agents /Andie Silva -- Conclusion /Andie Silva -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /Andie Silva -- Index /Andie Silva.The Brand of Print offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways printers, publishers, stationers, and booksellers designed paratexts to market printed books as cultural commodities. This study traces envoys to the reader, visual design in title pages and tables of contents, and patron dedications, illustrating how the agents of print branded their markets by crafting relationships with readers and articulating the value of their labor in an increasingly competitive trade. Applying terms from contemporary marketing theory to the study of early modern paratexts, Andie Silva encourages a consideration of how print agents' labor and agency, made visible through paratextual design, continues to influence how we read, study, and digitize early modern texts.Library of the Written Word;volume76.Book industries and tradeEnglandHistory16th centuryBook industries and tradeEnglandHistory17th centuryParatextEnglandHistoryBooksEnglandMarketingHistoryBook industries and tradeHistoryBook industries and tradeHistoryParatextHistory.BooksMarketingHistory.381.450020942Silva Andie1984-1424674NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910793985103321The brand of print3815473UNINA