LEADER 04314nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910826783403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0390-9 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203905 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418246 035 $a(OCoLC)859160880 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748518 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001053099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11564388 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001053099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083970 035 $a(PQKB)11183633 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26859 035 $a(DE-B1597)449604 035 $a(OCoLC)1013954669 035 $a(OCoLC)979756238 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203905 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442129 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748518 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682426 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442129 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418246 100 $a20040615d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBibliography and the book trades $estudies in the print culture of early New England /$fHugh Amory ; edited by David D. Hall 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (185 p.) 225 0 $aMaterial texts 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51144-6 311 0 $a0-8122-3837-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tShort Title List --$tIntroduction --$t1. The Trout and the Milk An Ethnobibliographical Essay --$t2. "Gods Altar Needs Not Our Pollishings": Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book --$t3. ''A Bible and Other Books": Enumerating the Copies in Seventeenth-Century Essex County --$t4. Under the Exchange: The Unprofitable Business of Michael Perry, a Seventeenth-Century Boston Bookseller --$t5. Printing and Bookselling in New England, 1638-1713 --$t6. A Boston Society Library: The Old South Church and Thomas Prince --$t7. A Note on Statistics, or, What Do Our Imprint Bibliographies Mean by "Book"? --$tIndex 330 $aHugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays. Amory used his training as a bibliographer to reexamine every major question about printing, bookmaking, and reading in early New England. Who owned Bibles, and in what formats? Did the colonial book trade consist of books imported from Europe or of local production? Can we go behind the iconic status of the Bay Psalm Book to recover its actual history? Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pe" girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership. At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections. 606 $aBook industries and trade$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aBook industries and trade$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aPrinting industry$zNew England$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPrinting industry$zNew England$xHistory$y18th century 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aBook industries and trade$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting industry$xHistory 615 0$aPrinting industry$xHistory 676 $a070.50974 700 $aAmory$b Hugh$01633611 701 $aHall$b David D$086645 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826783403321 996 $aBibliography and the book trades$94059000 997 $aUNINA