Be Merry and Wise
Subtitle: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: June 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781584561804
Subjects: Bibliographies & Indexes; Children's Literature - General; Literary Criticism; Reference; Bibliography; Catalogs; Children's literature; Children's literature, English; England; Exhibitions; History; Publishing
Description: "The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. From this beginning, Felix de Marez Oyens and Brian Alderson have compiled Be Merry and Wise and shown how certain creative talents, driven by a sense of purpose, or a wish to make some money, attempted to appeal directly to children, and how the publishing industry came to realise that this audience might prove to constitute a profitable market."--Jacket.