Forms, Formats and the Circulation of Knowledge

Louisiane Ferlier, Ph.D. (2012, Université Paris Diderot), is the Digital Resources Manager at Centre for the History of Science at the Royal Society. She has published articles on John Wallis, the Bodleian Library and cross-Atlantic circulation of books. Bénédicte Miyamoto, Ph.D. (2011, Université Paris Diderot), is Associate Professor of British History at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. She has published on eighteenth-century drawing manuals, sales catalogues and art markets.

 Acknowledgements

 List of Figures

 Notes on Contributors



1 The Shape of Knowledge

 Louisiane Ferlier and Bénédicte Miyamoto



Part 1: (In) forming Professional Networks



2 Jobbing Printing in Late Early Modern London: Questions of Variety, Stability and Regularity

 James Raven



3 John Dunton, Bookseller and Author: Market Competition and Restrictive Practices from the Age of Licensing to the Advent of Copyright

 Jeffrey Hopes



4 Entering into Copyright: Author–Publisher Transactions in the Stationers’ Company Records

 Rebecca Schoff Curtin



5 Copyright and the Circulation of Geographical Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain

 Isabella Alexander



6 The Vauxhall Affray: Celebrity and Self-Promotion through the Manipulation of Print

 Yvonne Cornish



Part 2: (Per) forming Knowledge in Print



7 At the Ends of the Earth and on the Fringes of Print: Globe Production and Use in Britain, 1650–1800

 Katherine Parker



8 Trading in Trauma: Accidents, Knowledge and Early English Newspapers

 Craig Spence



9 Compositors’ Choices in Eighteenth-Century Typography

 James P. Ascher



10 Format and Meaning-Making in Religious Turn-up Books

 Jacqueline Reid-Walsh



11 The Book to Come: Literary Advertising and the Poetics of the Prospectus

 David Duff



 Bibliography of Secondary Sources

 Index of Names

 Index of terms