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A ground-breaking contribution to the economic and cultural history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century publishing of illustrated belles lettres in Scotland, the book offers detailed accounts of numerous agents of prints (booksellers, printers, designers, engravers) and their involvement in the making and marketing of illustrated editions. It examines the ways in which the makers of books not only produced printed visual culture artefacts but also contributed to the ideological inscription of these illustrations to engender patriotic concerns and issues of national identity. The book differs fundamentally from existing interventions in book illustration studies: Examinations of e...
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"Professor Nicholas Tracy not only gives a detailed reconsideration of the events leading up to the battle and the engagement itself, but places great emphasis upon its wider strategic significance, particularly in relation to the war for North America"--Jacket.