Steam-driven Shakespeare or making good books cheap
Subtitle: five Victorian illustrated editions
By: Alan R. Young
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New Castle, Delaware
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781584563594
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Textual Criticism; Literature publishing; History; Book industries and trade; Drama; Editing; Transmission of texts
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The transformation of the publishing industry and the alliance of a pioneer printer and a pioneer publisher; title: Charles Knight and the making of the pictorial edition of the works of Shakspere; title: Robert Tyas and the making of the works of Shakspere revised from the best authorities; title: George Routledge and the making of the plays of Shakespeare; title: John Cassell and the making of the plays of Shakespeare ("Cassell's illustrated; title: Shakespeare"); title: John Dicks and the making of Dicks' complete edition of Shakspere's works; title: Afterword.