The People of Print
Eighteenth-Century England
Published on 16. October 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-1-009-62945-4 (ISBN)
Description
This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer, publisher, business-owner, and bookseller, as well as several specific trade networks and numerous textual forms. The biographies draw on extensive new archival research, with details of key sources for further study on each figure. Chronologically organised, this Element offers a primer both on individual figures and on the tribulations and innovations of the print trade in the century of national and print expansion.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
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Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
125 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-62945-4 (9781009629454)
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Content
Preface; 1. Introduction by Adam James Smith, Rachel Stenner, and Kaley Kramer; 2. Elizabeth Nutt: Print Trade Matriarch (1666-1746) by Helen Williams; 3. John Nicholson and the Auctioning of Copyright (d.1717) by Jacob Baxter; 4. Catherine Sanger, Publisher in Bartholomew Close (1687-1716) by Kate Ozment; 5. John White Junior: Printer in the North (1689-1769) by Sarah Griffin; 6. Selling the Enlightenment: Mary Cooper and Print Culture (1707-1761) by Lisa Maruca; 7. The 'Indefatigable' Ann Ward, Printer in York (1715/6-1789) by Kaley Kramer; 8. Anne Fisher (1719-1778): Not Simply a Printer's Wife by Barbara Crosbie; 9. Sold at the Vestry: John Rippon (1751-1836) and the Hymnbook Trade by Dominic Bridge; 10. Diversity in the book trades: Ann Ireland (1751-1843) of Leicester by John Hinks; 11. 'Laugh when you must, be candid when you can': The Concealed Resistance of the Radical Printer Winifred Gales (1761-1839) by Adam James Smith; List of Abbreviations.