Edited by Scott E. Casper (NHC Fellow, 2005–06), Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship Volume 3 of A History of the Book in America narrates the emergence of a national book trade in the nineteenth century, as changes in manufacturing, distribution, and publishing conditioned, and were conditioned by, the evolving practices of authors and … Continued
By James L. W. West, III (NHC Fellow, 1981–82) This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution, the trade editor, the literary agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights, and the blockbuster mentality.
By David K. Johnson (NHC Fellow, 2014–15) In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands—the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, … Continued
By R. Jackson Wilson (NHC Fellow, 1984–85)
By Heather Hyde Minor (NHC Fellow, 2013–14) Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dealer, archaeologist, draftsman, publisher, bookseller, and author. In Piranesi’s Lost Words, Heather Hyde Minor considers Piranesi the author and publisher, focusing … Continued
By Joseph Loewenstein (NHC Fellow, 1988–89) The Author’s Due offers an institutional and cultural history of books, the book trade, and the bibliographic ego. Joseph Loewenstein traces the emergence of possessive authorship from the establishment of a printing industry in England to the passage of the 1710 Statute of Anne, which provided the legal underpinnings for … Continued
By Lewis Leary (NHC Fellow, 1978–79) Describes the efforts of Mason Locke Weems to distribute books across the United States during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries