Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays

Resource Information

The work Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Books and their readers in eighteenth-century England : new essays

Title remainder

new essays

Statement of responsibility

edited by Isabel Rivers

Title variation

Books and their readers in 18th century England

Contributor

• Rivers, Isabel
• Rivers, Isabel

Subject

• Book industries and trade -- England -- History -- 18th century
• Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century
• England -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
• English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
• Popular culture -- England

Language

eng

Summary

This 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

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

• 820.9005
• 028/.0942/09033
• 028.9094209033

Index

index present

LC call number

PR442

LC item number

.B66 2001eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• standards specifications
• bibliography