Printing History and Cultural Change: Fashioning the Modern English Text in Eighteenth-Century Britain

by Richard Wendorf

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This study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain.

The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0192898132

ISBN13:9780192898135

Release Date:July 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:350 Pages

Weight:1.51 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"

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