The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England (New Directions in Book History)

By Jocelyn Hargrave

Book Overview

1. Introduction2. The Beginnings of Editorial Style in Seventeenth-Century England: Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises3. The Architectural Principles of Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: Documenting the Early Modern Living Page4. The Pinnacle of Editorial Style in Eighteenth-Century England: John Smith's The Printer's Grammar5. Eighteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: The Editing of The Elements of Euclid by Isaac Barrow and Robert Simson6. The First Appropriation of Editorial Style: Philip Luckombe's A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing7. Nineteenth-Century Modernising Inheritance of Editorial Style: Caleb Stower's The Printer's Grammar8. Nineteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: Thomas Dunham Whitaker's Piers Plowman9. Authorial Editorial Practice at Work: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems(Ashley MS 408)10. Conclusion

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030202771
• ISBN13: 9783030202774
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"