Book Trade Research Articles

Sarah Neville. Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany

<scp>Sarah Neville</scp>. <i>Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade: English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany</i>

Thomas Betterton’s Book-Trade Apprenticeship and the Amazing Careers of His Two Masters, John Holden and John Rhodes, with Some Notes on the Actor’s Library

Abstract Thomas Betterton has been described as ‘the greatest English actor between Burbage and Garrick’ as well ‘the pre-eminent manager of his time’ (ODNB); yet he began his career in the book trade, with an informal apprenticeship split between entirely different masters. The first was the ambitious John Holden who might have succeeded Humphrey Moseley as the most important literary publisher of the day, had he not died young. His second master was John Rhodes, who took a more pragmatic view of bookselling. Rhodes’ heart was in the theatre—he briefly had his own company and purchased shares in a playhouse—but he understood that bookselling provided a more stable income. Rhodes would have kept the young Betterton busy in his bookshop, but he probably also gave Betterton his first stage experience. While Betterton went on to a brilliant acting and managing career, he continued his association with books, accumulating a large working library.

The Commonplacing of Professional Plays Revisited: Print, Theater, and Early Modern Institutional Exchange

In early 1600, William Holme would have seemed unlikely to be the stationer who would soon transform the publication of early modern drama. Over the course of a ten-year career, through 1599, he had sold just thirteen titles, none of which he reprinted and none of which was a play. But that would soon change. On April 8, 1600, Holme entered Ben Jonson’s Every Man Out of His Humour in the Stationers’ Register, and published the first edition shortly thereafter.1 This playbook changed the way in which the book trade printed and sold early modern drama, and not only because the claim on its title page that it contained “more than hath been Publickely Spoken or Acted” was unprecedented among the era’s professional vernacular playbooks.2Every Man Out also inaugurated the practice of publishing professional vernacular drama with printed commonplace markers, the full-line font change or marginal commas (sometimes inverted) used to signal aphoristic, extractable wisdom. Prior to 1600, commonplace markers had appeared in translations of classical and French drama and in vernacular nonprofessional plays and nondramatic literature. But no professional vernacular playbook featured printed commonplace markers until Every Man Out’s first quarto. It was thus Holme who published what was, in the spring of 1600, one of early modern London’s most innovative playbooks.

Index to Volume 116

Previous article FreeIndex to Volume 116 Papers of the Bibliographical Society of AmericaPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreSubject entries, whether topical, personal name, or geographical, are set in small capitals. A chronological approach is provided under chronological references. Geographical entries are made for all articles, notes, and reviews treating a subject that can be localized. Adams, Christopher, “‘Could You Make It Rather More of a He and She picture’: Queer Texts and Dust-Jackets in Mid-Twentieth Century British Fiction,” 537–65 Aldine Studies: Bordini, Alessandra, review of Kray and Paolo Sachet, eds., The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade, 129–34; Sachet, Paolo, review of Costas, ed., Aldo Manuzio en la España del Renacimiento, 489–92 American Anti-Slavery Society: Winship, Michael, “Early Publication History of Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave (1838),” 277–91 Anti-Black Violence: Goldsby, Jacqueline, and Meredith L. McGill, “What is ‘Black’ about Black Bibliography?” 161–89 Archival Studies: Cataldo, Ashley, review of DiCuirci, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books, 492–95; Soto, Margarita M. Castromán, review of Cloutier, Shadow Archives: The Lifecycles of African American Literature, 326–33 Barlow, Thomas: Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Bartlett, Henrietta: Houghton, Eve, “Private Owners, Public Books: Henrietta Bartlett’s Feminist Bibliography,” 567–87 Barton, Melissa, review of West, Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: Popular Black History in Postwar America, 333–37 Batch Bindings: Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Berthelet, Thomas: Gwara, Joseph J., “Who Printed Huon? New Light on the Early Tudor Book Trade,” 409–81 Black Bibliography Project: Goldsby, Jacqueline, and Meredith L. McGill, “What is ‘Black’ about Black Bibliography?” 161–89; Lee, Jeong Yeon, “Compiling ‘A Selected Bibliography of Bibliographies of African American Writing,’” 305–07; Spires, Derrick R., “On Liberation Bibliography: The 2021 BSA Annual Meeting Keynote,” 1–20; “Order and Access: Dorothy Porter and the Mission of Black Bibliography,” 255–75 Black Book Interactive Project: Goldsby, Jacqueline, and Meredith L. McGill, “What is ‘Black’ about Black Bibliography?” 161–89; Spires, Derrick R., “Order and Access: Dorothy Porter and the Mission of Black Bibliography,” 255–75 Black Panther Party: Nishikawa, Kinohi, “Mumbo Jumbo’s Paratextual Condition,” 215–54 Black Vernacular: Nishikawa, Kinohi, “Mumbo Jumbo’s Paratextual Condition,” 215–54 Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Bliss, Philip: Gwara, Joseph J., “Who Printed Huon? New Light on the Early Tudor Book Trade,” 409–81 Board Edges: Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Böninger, Lorenz, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493, reviewed, 591–93 Book Collecting: Di Pietro, Debora M., review of Johnston, ed., A British Book Collector: Rare Books and Manuscripts in the R. E. Hart Collection, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, 610–13; Fulton, Allison, review of Poole, Henderson, and Nasifoglu, Robert Hooke’s Books, database, 594–97 Bordini, Alessandra, review of Kray and Paolo Sachet, eds., The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade, 129–34 Brander, Elisabet, review of Savage, Early Colour Printing: German Renaissance Woodcuts at the British Museum, 589–90 Braun, Jolie, review of Lomazow, Magazines and the American Experience: Highlights from the Collection of Steven Lomazow, 613–16 Buddhism: Cho, Hwisang, “Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture,” 93–127 Cambridge University: Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Cataldo, Ashley, review of DiCuirci, Colonial Revivals: The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Early American Books, 492–95 Cataloging: Spires, Derrick R., “Order and Access: Dorothy Porter and the Mission of Black Bibliography,” 255–75 Cavendish, Margaret: Blake, Liza, “Margaret Cavendish’s University Years: Batch Bindings and Trade Bindings in Cambridge and Oxford,” 21–91 Chatto and Windus: Adams, Christopher, “‘Could You Make It Rather More of a He and She picture’: Queer Texts and Dust-Jackets in Mid-Twentieth Century British Fiction,” 537–65 Chinese Characters: Cho, Hwisang, “Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture,” 93–127 Chinese Literature: Cho, Hwisang, “Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture,” 93–127 Cho, Hwisang, “Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture,” 93–127 Chosŏn Society: Cho, Hwisang, “Embodied Literacy: Somatic Origins of Nonlinear Layouts in Chosŏn Epistolary Culture,” 93–127 Christenson, Julie, review of Da Rold, Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions, 483–86 Christian Recorder: Jones, Kassidi, review of Gardner, Black Print Unbound: The “Christian Recorder,” African American Literature, and Periodical Culture, 313–17 Chronological

Upon Reflection

Upon Reflection

Ross, Trevor. Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Ross, Trevor. <i>Writing in Public: Literature and the Liberty of the Press in Eighteenth-Century Britain</i>

“Special Feature: The Achievements of John Dennis,” ed. Claude Willan. 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, ed. Kevin L. Cope

“Special Feature: The Achievements of John Dennis,” ed. Claude Willan. <i>1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, ed. Kevin L. Cope</i>

The Early Modern Book Trade Project: Premises, Objectives, Methodologies and Resources

The Early Modern Book Trade Project: Premises, Objectives, Methodologies and Resources

Presentation of Scientific Practices in Elementary Level Science Trade Books: An Examination of Trends Across Grade Level Bands

Presentation of Scientific Practices in Elementary Level Science Trade Books: An Examination of Trends Across Grade Level Bands

Piracy in the Book Trade

Piracy in the Book Trade

Ungarische Reisende über europäische Bibliotheken im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert

AbstractWhen one examines the descriptions of Hungarian travellers of the 16th–17th centuries, it can be stated that the young people – as the listed examples all bring to life the journeys of young people – were prepared for the trips. These young travellers were also accompanied by teachers, and they could read about the geography and people of the area to be visited in the libraries at home. It is also important that eruditive knowledge, complemented by the experience of the trip, reinforces the knowledge read. They also knew the importance of book publishing and the book trade, and we could cite more passages in this regard than in the case of libraries. The libraries they saw were admired, but usually left unmentioned. They must have visited the university library, yet we can hardly find any information about this in the letters and diaries sent to patrons and parents. In our study, we present and cite some examples, but we mention cases where the traveller also noticed the decoration of the library – paintings, sculptures – and furnishings. Globes are mentioned more often. At the end of the study, I mention that from the end of the 17th century we know of a university debate (dissertation) about libraries. Under the leadership of praesens Johann Georg Zihn, Adam Gruber, a citizen of Sopron, defended his thesis, Disputatio de bibliothecis (Leipzig, 1678). It is also the first library science work by an author from Hungary.

Teaching Through Trade Books: Patterns From Earth’s Place in Space

Teaching Through Trade Books: Patterns From Earth’s Place in Space

Francisco de Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil

Francisco de Paula Brito: A Black Publisher in Imperial Brazil

Contributions regarding the activity of „Moldknigotorg” and „Luminiţa” bookstores in the Moldovian SSR

The author of this article deals with the issue of the historical evolution of the book publishing and distribution in RSSM in 1940–1989. The author makes a historical retrospective on the historical evolution of book distribution wich was generally attributed to the „Moldknigotorg” - a republican association of the book trade that monopolized the book market in that period. This state structure for has played a substantial role in promoting the book among the mass reader. Thus, the idea of launching the “Luminița” project appears, which was, in fact, an instrument of “taming” the writers against the Soviet regime and of giving up ideas of national identity. The study brings again into description the main scientific realizations, the works, the personalities in this sphere, presenting in the same time also the political-ideological part of the writing literature in this Soviet period.

Strange Fruit: the power of a protest song NCSS trade book investigation

Strange Fruit: the power of a protest song NCSS trade book investigation

Examining Problem-Solving Schemas and Schema Features in Children’s Trade Books

Examining Problem-Solving Schemas and Schema Features in Children’s Trade Books

NCSS notable trade book lesson plan

NCSS notable trade book lesson plan

Animal Law in the Third Reich

Animal Law in the Third Reich

The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons (review).

Reviewed by: The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons James Inglis (bio) The Typewriter Century: A Cultural History of Writing Practices By Martyn Lyons. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 261. Written by historian of reading and writing practices Martyn Lyons, this book explores the relationship between creative writers and their typewriters. The "Typewriter Century," as Lyons defines it, began in the 1880s with the widespread commercialization of the typewriter and Mark Twain's claim to be the first novelist to use a writing machine. The century ended in the 1980s as word-processing technologies superseded typewriters. Although, as noted, the typewriter is experiencing something of a comeback in the twenty-first century. This work expands on Lyons's 2014 article in Quærendo, which looked at the use of typewriters by Henry James and Jack Kerouac. In addition, there are sections on the typing practices of George Simenon, Erle Stanley Gardner, Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, and many other authors. This book has been released at a time of renewed scholarly interest in the history of typewriters, with Thomas Mullaney's The Chinese Typewriter (2017) a shining example. The most significant contribution made in this work is in shedding light on the variety of ways creative writers interacted with writing machines. For some, the typewriter created a "distancing effect," as Lyons puts it. For these writers, typewriters produced text that was both detached from their thoughts and impersonal to the reader. Helpfully, Lyons identifies several examples of writers who expressed their guilt at writing private letters "with the machine" but were obliged to do so because of the sheer volume of their correspondence. In stark contrast, other authors had a "romantic" vision of their typewriter, believing that the machine was irreplaceable in enabling rapid, instinctive, and spontaneous composition. Here, Lyons draws an improbable but fascinating comparison between children's author Enid Blyton and the Beat poet and novelist Jack Kerouac. Despite writing for very different audiences, both are said to have typed in a trancelike state, with their ideas flooding through the keys onto the paper in a stream of consciousness. Lyons links the automatic writing styles of Kerouac, Blyton, and others with typing practices in clerical work. In office settings, typists were sometimes expected to transcribe documentation rapidly without engaging with the content. The links between office work and creative writing are also drawn out in Lyons's chapter on Erle Stanley Gardner, the author of the long-running Perry Mason detective series. Gardner's creative output was prodigious. So to keep up with his writing, he set up a "Fiction Factory" with a permanent typing pool, fitted out with the latest typewriters, Dictaphones, and office technologies. Here Lyons presents a new perspective on general user practices in clerical work, for which there is considerable scholarly interest. [End Page 1216] As this is a trade book, Lyons has chosen to devote considerable space to general interest topics, including a potted history of the typewriter. However, this chapter is based on a seemingly cursory reading of the secondary literature resulting in several inaccuracies. For example, Lyons writes that early typewriting historian George Mares "could not foresee the advent of the electric typewriter" in The History of the Typewriter, published in 1909. In fact, in this very book, Mares included a detailed description of the Blickensderfer Electric, one of the earliest commercially manufactured electric typewriters. These mistakes have a bearing on the overall argument as when it comes to engaging with the artifacts themselves, readers from a history of technology background may have wished for greater engagement with the array of designs that emerged throughout The Typewriter Century. At times, Lyons comes tantalizingly close to such an approach. For instance, it is noted that Henry James was spurred on by the clicking of his Remington and that his inspiration dried up after his typist upgraded to a quieter Oliver typewriter. But such references to different designs are thrown in by Lyons anecdotally, with little analysis. Perhaps this work can serve as a starting point for a detailed exploration of the impact that different styles of typewriter had on writing practices. As a whole, this book...

Deep LOB trading: Half a second please!

We introduce an expert deep-learning system for limit order book (LOB) trading for markets in which the stock tick frequency is longer than or close to 0.5 s, such as the Chinese A-share market. This half a second enables our system, which is trained with a deep-learning architecture, to integrate price prediction, trading signal generation, and optimization for capital allocation on trading signals altogether. It also leaves sufficient time to submit and execute orders before the next tick-report. Besides, we find that the number of signals generated from the system can be used to rank stocks for the preference of LOB trading. We test the system with simulation experiments and real data from the Chinese A-share market. The simulation demonstrates the characteristics of the trading system in different market sentiments, while the empirical study with real data confirms significant profits after factoring in transaction costs and risk requirements.