Constructing the frameworks of desire: How newspapers sold books in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Prose Studies

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 157-175

  Ferdinand, Christine ^a  

^a MAGDALEN COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61149385787     PISSN: 17439426     EISSN: 01440357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01440359808586643     Document Type: Article

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2. Martial, Epigrams, I. cxvii: 11-13
3. Armando Petrucci, Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture, trans. Linda Lappin (Chicago, IL, and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 1
4. Colin H. Roberts and T.C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex (London: printed for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1983)
5. See Rudolph Pfeiffer, History of Classical Scholarship from the Beginnings to the End of the Hellenistic Age (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968; special edn. for Sandpiper Books, 1998), 28-9
6. The Works of Thomas Nashe, vol.1, ed. Ronald B. McKerrow (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1910), 343
7. Ronald B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), 90 n. 2
8. C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson, and Evelyn Simpson (eds.), Ben Jonson, vol.8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), 27-8
9. Impartial Protestant Mercury (10 Jan. 1682)
10. H.S. Bennet, English Books and Readers, 1558-1603: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade in the Reign of Elizabeth I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), 260-61
11. D.F. McKenzie and J.C. Ross (eds.), A Ledger of Charles Ackers, Printer of The London Magazine (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1968)
12. Graham Pollard and Albert Ehrmann, The Distribution of Books by Catalogue from the Invention of Printing to A.D. 1800 (Cambridge: Roxburghe Club, 1965)
13. The Staple of Newes, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson: The Second Volume (London: printed for Richard Meighen, 1640), Prologue, Act iii
14. Advertised in Mercurius Publicus (14 May 1657), Publick Intelligencer (18 May 1657)
15. Cited in J.B. Williams, A History of English Journalism to the Foundations of the Gazette (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1908), 167
16. Joseph Frank, The Beginnings of the English Newspaper 1620-1660 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961), 11
17. Peter M. Blayney, The Bookshops in Paul's Cross Churchyard (Bibliographical Society Occasional Papers 5; London: Bibliographical Society, 1990), 21-3
18. See the discussion of trade advertising in D.F. McKenzie, "Trading Places? England 1689-France 1789," in Haydn T. Mason (ed.), The Darnton Debate: Books and Revolution in the Eighteenth-Century (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1998), 14-16
19. Graham Pollard, Bodleian Library Oxford, MS. Pollard 280, fo. 184
20. R.B. Walker, "Advertising in London Newspapers, 1650-1750," Business History (1973): 117
21. C.Y. Ferdinand, "Selling It to the Provinces: News and Commerce round Eighteenth-Century Salisbury," in John Brewer and Roy Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods (London: Routledge, 1993), 393-411
22. SPCK Minutes, 24 May 1716. The SPCK Archives are currently (October 1998) in transit from SPCK headquarters, Marylebone Road, London to their new home in the Cambridge University Library
23. John Calhoun Stephens (ed.), The Guardian (Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 1982), 134
24. R.M. Wiles, Serial Publication in England before 1750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965), Appendix B: "Short-Title Catalogue of Books Published in Fascicules before 1750."
25. Quoted in S. Roscoe, John Newbery and His Successors 1740-1814: A Bibliography (Wormley, Herts: Five Owls Press, 1973), 73
26. Lorna Weatherill, "The Meaning of Consumer Behaviour in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England," in Brewer and Porter (eds.), Consumption and the World of Goods, 220, Tables 10.4 and 10.5
27. McKenzie and Ross (eds), Ledger of Charles Ackers, 168, 180, 231
28. Wiles, Serial Publication in England before 1750, 334-5
29. McKenzie and Ross (eds.), Ledger of Charles Ackers, 245-6
30. The first refers to Charles Morgan of Tredegar; the second to John Lewis of St Pierre; the third to Charles Van of Llanwern; the fourth to Charles Milborne of Wonastow; and the last to John Hanbury (see Richard Hanbury Tenison, The Hanburys of Monmouthshire (1995), 183)