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Printing history and cultural change fashioning the modern English text in eighteenth-century Britain /

'Printing History and Cultural Change' explores printing conventions in the eighteenth century and the gradual tendency to abandon the use of capital letters, italics and small capitals in English books, heralding the advent of a cleaner, and smoother, printed page. It studies a range of t...

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Main Author: Wendorf, Richard,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Printing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Printing -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
Printing -- 18th century -- Style manuals -- History.
Capitalization -- History -- 18th century.
Italic type -- History -- 18th century.
Publishers and publishing -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.

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