Cultural Crossroads: Print and Reading in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English-Speaking Montreal.

From the establishment of its first press in 1776 when Fleury Mesplet arrived with a printer's commission from the Continental Congress, Montreal has been a dynamic center of cultural exchange and printing activity, a crossroads linking France, British North America, and the United States. Drawing upon two scholarly traditions and their respective approaches to book history--analytical bibliography theorized by Anglo-American researchers and the analysis of quantitative and documentary evidence developed by their French colleagues--the general editors of a 'History of the Book in Canada/Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada' demonstrate the use of material and cultural evidence for the study of printers and readers in early Canada.

Publication Date
Volume
112
Part
2
Page Range
231-248
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