Interacting with print: elements of reading in the era of print saturation

400 Pages·2017·6.996 MB·English

by  Piper, Andrew

INTERACTING WITH PRINT
THE MULTIGRAPH COLLECTIVE
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Mark algee- Hewitt MicHael Macovski
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tHora Brylowe anDrew PiPer
Julia carlson DaHlia Porter
Brian cowan JonatHan sacHs
susan Dalton Diana soloMon
Marie- clauDe Felton anDrew stauFFer
MicHael gaMer ricHarD taws
Paul keen nikola von MervelDt
MicHelle levy cHaD wellMon
INTER ACTING
WITH

P R I N T
ELEMENTS OF
R E A DI N G
IN THE ER A OF
PRINT SATUR ATION
The Multigraph Collective
tHe university oF cHicago Press
cHicago anD lonDon
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
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isBn- 13: 978- 0- 226- 46914- 0 (cloth)
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The University of Chicago Press gratefully acknowledges the generous
support of Le Fonds de recherche du Québec— Société et culture (FrQsc)
toward the publication of this book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Multigraph Collective (Scholarly group), author.
Title: Interacting with print : elements of reading in the era of print
saturation / The Multigraph Collective.
Description: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2017035583 | isBn 9780226469140 (cloth : alk. paper) |
isBn 9780226469287 (e-book)
Subjects: lcsH: Printing—History—18th century. | Printing—History—19th
century. | Intermediality—History.
Classification: lcc Z124.a2 M85 2017 | DDc 686.209/033—dc23
lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017035583
This paper meets the requirements of ansi/niso Z39.48- 1992
(Permanence of Paper).
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Preface; or, What Is a Multigraph? xi
Introduction 1
1. Advertising 15 10. Index 155
2. Anthologies 33 11. Letters 169
3. Binding 49 12. Manuscript 185
4. Catalogs 66 13. Marking 204
5. Conversations 85 14. Paper 223
6. Disruptions 97 15. Proliferation 243
7. Engraving 113 16. Spacing 260
8. Ephemerality 126 17. Stages 274
9. Frontispieces 141 18. Thickening 288
Epilogue 305
Works Cited 311
About the Multigraph Collective 343
Index 349

ILLUSTRATIONS
color Plates (Following Page 46)
1 Pieces of twig mounted inside the cover of Thomas Gray’s Poems (1768)
2 Contents page from Thomas W. Handford’s Illustrated Home Book of
Poetry and Song (1884)
3 Binding of Friendship’s Token (1855)
4 François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour (1758)
5 Binding of J. Griffith’s Travels in Europe, Asia Minor and Arabia (1805)
6 Fifty- sol assignat (1793)
7 Admission form to the Foundling Hospital (1756)
8 Printer’s waste reused as a specimen- drying book (1768–1 771)
9 Page from I. Thomasen’s Eikon Basilike (1713)
10 Tracing of hands from The Works of William Shakespeare (1853)
11 Reading in multiple directions, Hale family scrapbook (nineteenth
century)
12 Mary Delaney, Asperula (1777)
13 Green’s characters in The Red Rover (1836)
14 J. R. Smith, The Dream (1791)
15 Charles Williams, Luxury (1801)
16 Authorized English version of the Holy Bible (1890)
Black- anD- wHite Figures
0.1 Pieces of twig mounted inside the cover of Thomas Gray’s Poems
(1768) 8
0.2 Trio of theoretical concerns 14
1.1 Handbill for Salmon’s Royal Wax- Work (1760s) 20
viii : illustrations
2.1 Contents page from Thomas W. Handford’s Illustrated Home Book of
Poetry and Song (1884) 37
2.2 Frontispiece and title page from Friedrich Wilmans’s Taschenbuch
der Liebe und Freundschaft gewidmet (1823) 42
2.3 Joseph von Eichendorff’s “Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel” from In
zarter Frauenhand (1887) 45
2.4 Binding of Friendship’s Token (1855) 46
3.1 François Boucher, Madame de Pompadour (1758) 55
3.2 Binding of J. Griffith’s Travels in Europe, Asia Minor and Arabia (1805)
59
3.3 Binding of Anna Seward’s Letters (1811) 59
4.1 Page from James Petiver’s Hortus siccus Cappensis (date un-
known) 76
6.1 Page titled “Natural History,” from the Fliegende Blätter (1845) 102
6.2 Page showing multiple typefaces, from the Fliegende Blätter
(1845) 103
6.3 Charles Philipon in La Caricature (1832) 106
6.4 “Pear speech” in La Caricature (1835) 107
6.5 George Cruikshank, Bank Restriction Note (1819) 108
7.1 William Woollett, The Death of General Wolfe (1776) 119
8.1 Fifty- sol assignat (1793) 132
8.2 Admission form to the Foundling Hospital (1756) 135
8.3 Printer’s waste reused as a specimen- drying book (1768– 1771) 136
9.1 Frontispiece and title page from Mary Robinson’s Poems (1791) 147
9.2 Frontispiece and title page from the illustrated edition of Don
Quichotte de La Manche (1836) 149
9.3 Frontispiece to Otto Roquette’s Waldmeisters Brautfahrt (1897) 151
9.4 Frontispiece and title page to first edition of Dombey and Son (1848)
153
9.5 Frontispiece to Rousseau’s Collection d’auteurs français (1833) 154
10.1 Page from Johann Samuel Ersch’s Allgemeines Repertorium der
Literatur für die Jahre (1785– 1790) 163
12.1 Manuscript transcription from I. Thomasen’s Eikon Basilike
(1713) 188
12.2 Two pages from I. Thomasen’s Eikon Basilike (1648) 189
12.3 Title page from Charles Churchill’s Gotham, A Poem, Book III (1764)
192
13.1 Tracing of hands from The Works of Shakespeare (1853) 210
illustrations : ix
13.2 Title page inscription from Caroline: or, The History of Miss Sedley
(1787) 212
13.3 Manuscriptural emendations of The Foundling Hospital, for Wit (1746)
214
14.1 Anonymous, La confession coupée (1677) 228
14.2 Reading in multiple directions, Hale family scrapbook (nineteenth
century) 236
14.3 Mary Delany, Asperula (1777) 237
14.4 Green’s Characters in The Red Rover (1836) 239
14.5 Pasted- in emendation of George Steevens’s Works of Shakespeare
(1802) 241
15.1 J. R. Smith, The Dream (1791) 255
15.2 Charles Williams, Luxury (1801) 256
15.3 “The Card Catalog,” from the Library Bureau Catalog (1890) 258
16.1 George Herbert’s “Easter Wings,” from The Temple (1633) 262
16.2 Last page of “To the Genius of Africa” from Robert Southey’s Poems
(1797) 270
16.3 William Wordsworth’s “Lines left upon a seat in a Yew- Tree” from
Lyrical Ballads (1798) 271
18.1 Authorized English version of the Holy Bible (1890) 291
18.2 Francesco Bartolozzi’s engraving of John Henderson as Iago (late
eighteenth century) 296
19.1 Network representation of renvois linking the chapters of this book
307
19.2 Network representation of topical similarity between chapters of
this book 308