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The essays collected here offer examinations of bibliographical matters, publishing practices, the illustration of texts in a variety of engraved media, little studied print culture genres, the critical and editorial fortunes of individual works, and the significance of the complex interrelationships that authors entertained with booksellers, publishers, and designers. They investigate how all these relationships affected the production of print commodities and how all the agents involved in the making of books contributed to the cultural literacy of readers and the formation of a canon of literary texts. Specific topics include a bibliographical study of Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko' and its editions from its first publication to the present day; the illustrations of John Bunyan's 'Pilgrim's Progress' and the ways in which the interpretive matrices of book illustration conditioned the afterlife and reception of Bunyan's work; the almanac and the subscription edition; publishing history, collecting, reading, and textual editing, especially of Robert Burns's poems and James Thomson's 'The Seasons'; the "printing for the author" practice; the illustrated and material existence of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, and the Victorian periodical, 'The Athenaeum'. Sandro Jung is Research Professor of Early Modern British Literature and Director of the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture at Ghent University. Contributors: Gerard Carruthers, Nathalie Collé-Bak, Marysa Demoor, Alan Downie, Peter Garside, Sandro Jung, Brian Maidment, Laura L. Runge.

Book history --- English literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 820 --- 76 <41> --- Engelse literatuur --- Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Books --- Books and reading --- Printing --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- History --- 76 <41> Grafische kunsten. Grafiek. Prentkunst--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 820 Engelse literatuur --- 820 English literature. Literature in English --- English literature. Literature in English --- Literature publishing --- Literary publishing --- Literature --- Publishers and publishing --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Bibliographical matters. --- Critical and editorial fortunes. --- Cultural literacy. --- Engraved media. --- Literary texts. --- Print culture genres. --- Print culture. --- Publishing practices. --- Sandro Jung. --- Seventeenth to nineteenth century. --- British literature --- Prints, British. --- History and criticism.