American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and FieldsCambridge University Press, 1995 - Broj stranica: 268 This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also developed new production, distribution, and marketing skills as the settlement of North America pushed ever further west. Michael Winship has studied the firm's business records and publications in detail: he reveals what Ticknor and Fields published, its costs of production, the ways it marketed and distributed its books, and the profits it made. Winship goes on to explore the implications of the firm's work for the book trade in general, and to show how an investigation of Ticknor and Fields enriches our understanding of the literary and cultural history of Britain and North America. |
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American Literary Publishing in the Mid-nineteenth Century: The Business of ... Michael Winship Pregled nije dostupan - 1995 |
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account books advertising April arrangements authors backlist beginning 1853 book trade firms booksellers Boston cash cents per volume charged Charles Charvat cloth binding commission books commission publishing cost book entries cost per copy debited discounts distribution early sheets edition electrotype entered expenses firm paid firm's business firm's commission firm's publications foreign Frémont Henry W Houghton illustrations important imprint included intaglio John Charles Frémont juvenile ledger account literary publishing Longfellow merchandise account Nathaniel Hawthorne number of copies occasional Old Corner Bookstore Osgood paper payments percent period Poems poetry printer production costs publications of Ticknor publishing activities purchase books ream received regular relief wood engravings repr reprints retail price retail sales royalty Samuel G sold Song of Hiawatha stereotype plates textbooks TF Ledger TF Letter Book TF Sales Book Thomas De Quincey Ticknor and Fields trade sales transactions Waverley novels wholesale William William D York
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Stranica 3 - Publishing is relevant to literary history only in so far as it can be shown to be, ultimately, a shaping influence on literature.
Stranica 233 - Distribution," in Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876, ed. David D. Hall and John B. Hench (Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1987), 103-86. 4. Michael Hackenherg, "The Subscription Publishing Network in Nineteenth-Century America," in Getting the Books Out: Papers of the Chicago Conference on the Book in 19thCentury America, ed.