@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt6wp8rb.15, ISBN = {9781843839101}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt6wp8rb.15}, abstract = {Literary historians and sociologists have spoken of the social impact of print as a form of restructuring consciousness. Historical reconstructions of attitudinal change have been greatly assisted by broad questions about the penetration of literature in society through studies of production, retail, borrowing and circulation, about the use to which books were put, and about the objective of writers and the confidence placed in their message.¹ The broader question of ‘printedness’ raised issues, as also addressed by earlier chapters here, particularly in relation to jobbing printing and the production of small printed items. The history of publishing that informed and}, bookauthor = {James Raven}, booktitle = {Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England}, edition = {NED - New edition}, pages = {206--229}, publisher = {Boydell and Brewer}, title = {Wider Discussion}, year = {2014} }