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Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing since 1700 (Paperback)
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Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing since 1700 (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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This title was first published in 2000: The essays in this
collection re-examine the phenomenon of "free print" in print
culture. By focusing on free print the volume offers perspectives
in the cultural history of textual transmission from the early-18th
century to the mid-20th century. "Publishing" in the sense of
making the print public, embraces the free and often unsolicited
distribution of religious literature, political propaganda, and
civic and personal gifts. The free print examined here includes
gift-books; advertisements and commemorations; the promotion of
knowledge, institutions and services; commercial and philanthropic
lobbying; religious and missionary activity; and political
propaganda both official and underground. Broad issues range from
the consideration of press finances, government intervention, and
private and institutional patronage, to textual familiarity and
social ritual. The approach is deliberately comparative. Ten
established scholars of book and printing history, who look at very
different regions and periods, test the nature of the alleged
authority of print and the apparent value of the commercial tag
through the study of print which arrives unbidden in the hands of
its consumers. The chapters in this volume are based on papers
first given at the "Print for Free" conference organized by the
Cambridge Project for the Book Trust in September 1996.
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