Romantic Readers: The Evidence of MarginaliaWhen readers jot down notes in their books, they reveal something of themselves—what they believe, what amuses or annoys them, what they have read before. But a close examination of marginalia also discloses diverse and fascinating details about the time in which they are written. This book explores reading practices in the Romantic Age through an analysis of some 2,000 books annotated by British readers between 1790 and 1830. |
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... printing , and cloth bindings - swept away traditional artisanal methods and brought in mass production , making ... printed matter did not take hold until after 1830. Most of the technological innovations listed should properly be ...
... printed matter available.∞≥ If ''revolution'' is the wrong word to apply to the reading environ- ment of Britain ... printing and publishing and related trades.∞∂ After 1790 the trend continued; it was business as usual, only more so ...
... printed materials from all over the country . It was a well - established , mutually advan- tageous system.1 The title pages of books published in the period often say simply , " Sold by all booksellers . ” Advertisers conventionally ...
... printing shops in London began to increase , with 124 of them recorded in 1785 , 216 in 1808 , 316 in 1824 , and around 500 by 1850 ; at the same time , printing spread all over the country , no longer restricted to cities and the ...
... printing costs , and sold her two - volume novel Coelebs in Search of a Wife ( 1808 ) for only twelve shillings but still cleared £ 2,000 in a year . Murray offered Byron £ 2,000 for Canto 3 of Childe Harold in 1816 , and in 1822 ...
Contents
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2 Socializing with Books | 121 |
3 Custodians to Posterity | 198 |
4 The Reading Mind | 249 |
Conclusion | 299 |
Notes | 307 |
Bibliography of Books with Manuscript Notes | 325 |
Bibliography of Secondary Sources | 340 |
Index | 353 |