• "Plodding along as printers and engravers" : the early years of Vizetelly & company / Marie Elena Korey
• A publisher and his books : the catalogue of Vizetelly & Co., 1880-1890 / Yannick Portebois
• Émile Zola's novels / Dorthy E. Speirs
• A man under fire : Henry Vizetelly and the question of obscenity in Victorian England / Richard Landon
• Appendix : addresses of Vizetelly & Co. and associated firms
• Items in the exhibit.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity
• 3. Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England
• 4. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories
• 5. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts
• 6. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations
• 7. Conclusions
• Appendix A: Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries (Excluding Biblical and Liturgical Books)
• Appendix B: Eighth-Century Inventories of Books from the Areas of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
• Appendix C: Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
• Appendix D: Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having Pre-Conquest English Provenance
• Appendix E: Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors
• Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England
• Index of Manuscripts
• General Index.
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The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves. After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book is provided with appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors. A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.
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• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Tables""; ""Plate section""; ""Introduction""; ""
• Chapter 1: Henry S. King: businessman of letters""; ""
• Chapter 2: Charles Kegan Paul, pastor to publisher""; ""
• Chapter 3: Kegan Paul, Trench â€? the partnership with a reputation for serious and beautiful books, 1877â€?1888""; ""
• Chapter 4: Kegan Paul, Trench, TrÃ?bner & Co. Ltd.: a financial crisis and a revolution in management, 1889â€?1911""; ""
• Chapter 5: The Kegan Paul legacy: the making, consolidation and survival of a reputation for serious books""; ""Notes""; ""Chronology of Events""

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and following in 1877 with Charles Kegan Paul and his partner Alfred Chenevix Trench. A financial crisis in 1889 forced an amalgamation with two other businesses and the new firm changed managers periodically until George Routledge and Son took over the business in 1911.Leslie Howsam combines biography and analytic bibliography in her study of the Kegan Paul imprint to demonstrate the value of publishing history as a contribution to the scholarly study of the book. Basing her research on intensive work in the company's surviving archives and supplemented by extensive library work with the actual books, Howsam looks at the wide range of significant titles published for the imprint. In addition, she reconstructs a biographical and business history of the firm based on published and unpublished accounts of the individuals involved, including the publishers and their families, and looks at the effects of changing business practices. The focus of Victorian Imprint Kegan Paul is the duality of imprint: the publisher's imprint upon a list of books, and publisher's personalities, the imprint of their taste and judgment on the culture in which they lived.
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• Preface and Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction The Sidneys of Penshurst The Penshurst Library Catalogue The Life of the Mind in Arcadia The Making of the Catalogue Readers and Collectors, 1540-1626 Sir Henry Sidney Sir Philip Sidney Robert Sidney, first earl of Leicester Robert Sidney, second earl of Leicester 'Lord Lisleys Study' The Library at Penshurst after 1665 Readers and Collectors: The Later Sidneys, 1677-1743 The Sale of the Penshurst Library Penshurst after the seventh earl Textual Introduction The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665 Appendix of Associated Books References.
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For two centuries (1540-1740) the Sidney family of Penshurt Place, Kent, produced poets, courtiers, collectors, and at least one revolutionary. Increasingly aware of the cultural ideal of the learned nobleman and of libraries as representations of that ideal, the Sidneys amassed one of the largest gentry libraries in England of their period. This edition of their library catalogue provides a vivid portrait of the birth, growth, and eventual demise of the distinguished family's library collection. Comprised of nearly 5000 entries, the catalogue is presented with a full introduction describing the Sidneys' intellectual world and life, their reading and collecting, the women collectors of the family, and the dispersal of the library in 1743. The editors employ all the resources of contemporary bibliography, print and digital, to identify the titles in the catalogue, and where possible to locate the Sidneys' own copies still extant, as well as architectural analysis to identify and describe the library room at Penshurst, now lost to nineteenth-century renovations.
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• List of illustrations-- List of contributors-- Acknowledgements-- Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker-- Part I. The Material Text:
• 1. Errata: print, politics, and poetry in early modern England Seth Lerer--
• 2. Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London Richard Wendorf-- Part II. Reading as Politics:
• 3. 'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state Heidi Brayman Hackel--
• 4. Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain Kevin Sharpe-- Part III. Print, Politics and Performance:
• 5. Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama David Scott Kastan--
• 6. Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain Joad Raymond-- Part IV. Reading Physiologies:
• 7. Reading bodies Michael Shoenfeldt--
• 8. Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society Adrian Johns-- Part V. Reading Texts in Time:
• 9. Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism Joseph Loewenstein--
• 10. The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading Steven N. Zwicker--
• 11. Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government Kirsie M. McClure-- Index.
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This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics including the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition, the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power. Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.
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• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Conventions
• 1: Introduction: The Book of Nature and the Nature of the Book
• 2: Literatory Life: The Culture and Credibility of the Printed Book in Early Modern London
• 3: "The Advancement of Wholesome Knowledge": The Politics of Print and the Practices of Propriety
• 4: John Streater and the Knights of the Galaxy: Republicanism, Natural Knowledge, and the Politics of Printing
• 5: Faust and the Pirates: The Cultural Construction of the Printing Revolution
• 6: The Physiology of Reading: Print and the Passions
• 7: Piracy and Usurpation: Natural Philosophy in the Restoration
• 8: Histories of the Heavens: John Flamsteed, Isaac Newton, and the Historia Coelestis Britannica
• 9: Conclusion Bibliography Index.
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In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas-commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."-Alberto Manguel, Washington Times "[A] mammoth and stimulating account of the place of print in the history of knowledge. . . . Johns has written a tremendously learned primer."-D. Graham Burnett, New Republic "A detailed, engrossing, and genuinely eye-opening account of the formative stages of the print culture. . . . This is scholarship at its best."-Merle Rubin, Christian Science Monitor "The most lucid and persuasive account of the new kind of knowledge produced by print. . . . A work to rank alongside McLuhan."-John Sutherland, The Independent "Entertainingly written. . . . The most comprehensive account available . . . well documented and engaging."-Ian Maclean, Times Literary Supplement.
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This text takes a look at early modern England and the creative and commercial forces in which print culture was formed and its many arenas - commercial, intellectual, political and individual. It includes detailed information on booksellers shops, the Royal Society, paper manufactories and type foundaries. Also featured are replications of the bitter disputes between authors and printers, printers and booksellers and clerics and individuals as they debate and resolve the meaning and rights attached to the creation of ideas, their appearance in written form and then in print, and the opportunity to sell, buy, and read printed work. Focusing on the interplay between the scientific and print revolutions and on their roles, both complementary and antagonistic, the text looks at production and dissemination of knowledge. Print also being used to manipulate those findings for political, religious or idealogical reasons.
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