The Evolution of Editorial Style in Early Modern England

This book provides a historical study on the evolution of editorial style and its progress towards standardisation through an examination of early modern English style guides. The text considers the variety of ways authors, editors and printers directly implemented or uniquely interpreted and adapte...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Hargrave, Jocelyn (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:New Directions in Book History
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Beginnings of Editorial Style in Seventeenth-Century England: Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises
  • 3. The Architectural Principles of Moxon's Mechanick Exercises: Documenting the Early Modern Living Page
  • 4. The Pinnacle of Editorial Style in Eighteenth-Century England: John Smith's The Printer's Grammar
  • 5. Eighteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: The Editing of The Elements of Euclid by Isaac Barrow and Robert Simson
  • 6. The First Appropriation of Editorial Style: Philip Luckombe's A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing
  • 7. Nineteenth-Century Modernising Inheritance of Editorial Style: Caleb Stower's The Printer's Grammar
  • 8. Nineteenth-Century Editorial Style at Work: Thomas Dunham Whitaker's Piers Plowman
  • 9. Authorial Editorial Practice at Work: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poems (Ashley MS 408)
  • 10. Conclusion.