Smith, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3938-4836, Stenner, Rachel and Kramer, Kaley, eds. (2025) The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge University Press

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Abstract

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 six women and four 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 book 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.

Item Type:	Book
Status:	Published
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA498-503 1714-1760 D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA505-522 George III, 1760-1820 P Language and Literature > PR English literature
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/14011

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