Category: History - British
The Weald of Kent—Caxton's School-days—French disused—English taught —Variations in English—Books before Printing—Libraries—Transcribers— Books for the Great—Book Trade—No Books for the People—Changes produced by Printing Page 1
The Weald of Kent—Caxton's School-days—French disused—English taught —Variations in English—Books before Printing—Libraries—Transcribers— Books for the Great—Book Trade—No Books...
2. CHAPTER II.3. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IV.5. CHAPTER V.Rapidity of Printing—Who the first English Printer—Caxton the first English Printer—First English Printed Book—Difficulties of the first Printers—Ancient Bookbinding—The Printer...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER VIII.9. CHAPTER I.10. CHAPTER II.11. CHAPTER III.12. CHAPTER IV.13. CHAPTER V.London Catalogue, 1816-1851—Annual Catalogues, 1828, 1853—Classes of Books, 1816-1851—Periodicals, 1831, 1853—Aggregate amount of Book-trade—Collections and Libraries—Internatio...
14. CHAPTER VII.15. CHAPTER VIII.16. CHAPTER I.The Weald of Kent—Caxton's School-days—French disused—English taught— Variations in English—Books before Printing—Libraries—Transcribers— Books for the Great—Book Trade—No Books...
17. CHAPTER II.In a book which Caxton printed in 1483, 'The Booke callyd Cathon,' he says in his prologue or preface, "Unto the noble, ancient, and renowned city, the city of London in England...
18. CHAPTER III.Robert Large, the master of Caxton, became Lord Mayor of London in 1439-40. He died in 1441. That he was a man of considerable substance appears by the record of his bequests, i...
19. CHAPTER IV.The "most dear" Duke of Burgundy, with whom Caxton was appointed to negotiate in 1464, was Philip, surnamed the Good. He was a wise and peaceful prince, and honourably earned hi...
20. CHAPTER V.Rapidity of Printing—Who the first English Printer—Caxton the first English Printer—First English Printed Book—Difficulties of the first Printers—Ancient Bookbinding—The Printer...
21. CHAPTER VI.The indications of the period at which Caxton first brought the art of printing into England are not very exact. Several of his books, supposed to have been amongst the earliest...
22. CHAPTER VII.In the library belonging to the Archbishops of Canterbury, at Lambeth, is a beautiful manuscript, on vellum, of a French work, 'Les Dicts Moraux des Philosophes,' which contains...
23. CHAPTER VIII.It was evensong time when, after a day of listlessness, the printers in the Almonry at Westminster prepared to close the doors of their workshop. This was a tolerably spacious r...
24. CHAPTER I.The history of Cheap Popular Literature is a long and instructive chapter of the history of the condition of the People. Before the invention of printing there was little litera...
25. CHAPTER II.In a condition of society which may be characterised as that of a very imperfect civilisation—when communication is difficult, and in some cases impossible; when the influence o...
26. CHAPTER III.On the 8th of February, 1696, our friend John Dunton completed the nineteenth volume of 'The Athenian Mercury, resolving all the most nice and curious questions proposed by the...
27. CHAPTER IV.From the time when Hume's 'History' was published at 5_s._ a volume, there appears to have been a steady advance in the price of books to the end of the century. In the eleven y...
28. CHAPTER V.London Catalogue, 1816-1851—Annual Catalogues, 1828-1853—Classes of Books, 1816-1861—Periodicals, 1831, 1853—Aggregate amount of Book-trade— Collections and Libraries—Internatio...
29. CHAPTER VI.The Railway Libraries—by which generic term we mean single volumes, printed in small type on indifferent paper, and sold mostly at a shilling—are almost wholly devoted to novels...
30. CHAPTER VII.Our readers can scarcely have failed to make for themselves the deduction which naturally arises out of this survey of the progress of popular literature—that there always have...
31. CHAPTER VIII.It is difficult to point out a direct practical remedy for much that is injurious in our cheapest popular literature; and especially any remedy that could be supplied by the Sta...