CELL is delighted to announce it has a new Research Associate, Dr Louisiane Ferlier. We look forward to welcoming her in September. In the meantime here are details of her upcoming conference, Forms and Formats: Experimenting with print, 1695-1815
From broadside ballads and Lilliputian folios to printed engravings and manuals, from newspapers and pamphlets to abridgements and anthologies, a vast variety of print circulated in eighteenth-century Britain and its colonies. How did authors, printers, engravers or booksellers experiment with new forms of publication and with what results? To what extent did regulations related to copyright, taxation, or postal distribution affect the choices of authors and publishers? How did changes in printing format (octavo, duodecimo, etc.) alter the experiences of readers and reveal the modifications of the book trade? This conference taking place on 8-9 September at the Bodleian Library and Oriel College, Oxford, discusses the innovations in the print market during a period of rapid expansion.
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