LEADER 02930nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910815194703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-29885-9 010 $a9786611298852 010 $a1-84714-400-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000411254 035 $a(EBL)436856 035 $a(OCoLC)290598374 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000113852 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129926 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000113852 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10101421 035 $a(PQKB)11004721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC436856 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000411254 100 $a20030812d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aBooks and their readers in eighteenth-century England $enew essays /$fedited by Isabel Rivers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (305 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-6717-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; 1 The Book Trades; 2 The English Bible and its Readers in the Eighteenth Century; 3 Theological Books from The Naked Gospel to Nemesis of Faith; 4 The History Market in Eighteenth-Century England; 5 Biographical Dictionaries and their Uses from Bayle to Chalmers; 6 Review Journals and the Reading Public; 7 Literary Scholarship and the Life of Editing; 8 The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 330 $aThis collection of eight new essays investigates ways in which significant kinds of 18th-century writings were designed and received by different audiences. Rivers explores the answers to certain crucial questions about the contemporary use of books. This new edition contains the results of important new research by well known specialists in the field of book and publishing history over the last two decades. 517 3 $aBooks and their readers in 18th century England 606 $aBook industries and trade$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zEngland$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y18th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPopular culture$zEngland 607 $aEngland$xIntellectual life$y18th century 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPopular culture 676 $a820.9005 676 $a028/.0942/09033 676 $a028.9094209033 701 $aRivers$b Isabel$0132114 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815194703321 996 $aBooks and their readers in eighteenth-century England$94188250 997 $aUNINA