Printing Technology, Letters & Samuel Johnson by Alvin Kernan ISBN 13: 9780691066929

Princeton University Press, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedVeryGood. Some dj wear. Text is mostly clean & readable.

Princeton University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 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… Read More

Princeton, NJ: Princeton, 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. pp. 357

Princeton Univ Pr, 1987-02. Hardcover. Good.