Passages of a Working Life During Half a Century 3 Volume Set

With a Prelude of Early Reminiscences
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-108-07425-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 1066 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 2812 g

Reihe: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

Charles Knight (1791–1873), the son of a Windsor bookseller, was apprenticed to his father at the age of fourteen. He read widely and systematically, and began to buy, collect and sell rare books. He also worked as a liberal-leaning journalist, and, on moving to London, set up as a publisher, then took to freelance writing, and acted as manager of the publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. In 1832, he launched the Penny Magazine, offering the working classes useful information, within a moral context of thrift and self-discipline. Knight continued to write - on Shakespeare, on Caxton, on English history - while at the same time being at the centre of the British publishing industry. His 1864–5 three-volume autobiography (reissued here in its posthumous 1873 edition) provides insights into the economics as well as the personalities of the mid-Victorian publishing world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knight, Charles

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen
• Interdisziplinäres Bibliothekswesen, Informationswissenschaften Buchgeschichte, Bibliotheksgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume 1: Introductory; Preface; Part I. Early Reminiscences: 1-2; Part II. The First Epoch: 1-10. Volume 2: Part III. The Second Epoch: 1-15; Note to ch. 15. Volume 3: Part IV. The Third Epoch: 1-8; Note to ch. 8; 9; Note to ch. 9; 10-13; Note to ch. 13; 14. L'envoy; Index.