The description for this book, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson), will be forthcoming.
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Good. Ex library hardback with D/J, Usual stamps/markings. Published in 1987 by Princeton University Press, NJ. Lean to spine & page edges little grubby otherwise a good, clean copy. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. BS-5A*
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Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo. xvi, 357 (1) pp, list of b&w illustrations, bibliographical note and acknowledgments, Introduction: Print and Letters in Eighteenth-Century England; Part I. The King of England Meets the Great Cham of Literature; II. Printing, Bookselling, Readers, and Writers in Eighteenth-Century London; III. Making the Writer's Role in a Print Culture; IV. The Writer as Culture Hero: Boswell's Johnson; V. Creating an Aura for Literary Texts in Print Culture; VI. Reading and Readers: The Literacy Crisis of the Eighteenth Century; VII. The Place and Purpose of Letters in Print Society; VIII. The Social Construction of Romantic Literature; Appendix: Letters as a Socially Constructed Reality: A Schematic View; bibliography, index. First Edition, 1987. "This provocative work explores the transition from orality to print and the effect of print on the subculture of letters in 18th-century England, and in particular the life of Samuel Johnson, who lived out the transformation of the writer's role in development of readership. The book is of particular interest in our own age, when technology is radically transforming human society and consciousness." from the jacket flap. Minor edge wear to dj, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Brown cloth with red title plate and gilt lettering to spine.