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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The life and times of James Catnach: (late of Seven Dials), ballad monger

The life and times of James Catnach: (late of Seven Dials), ballad monger

Charles Hindley

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ISBN10: 9353604486
ISBN13: 9789353604486
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Mar 30 2019
Pages: 450
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Behind the clamour of Victorian London stood a quiet revolutionary: the Seven Dials printer who turned cheap paper into the loudest voice of the streets. The streets speak in print. In The Life and Times of James Catnach, Charles Hindley offers a vivid Victorian biography book that follows Catnach from his humble beginnings in Seven Dials, London, into the heart of 19th century London's bustling trade in broadside ballads, chapbooks and broadsides, and other street literature. Blending intimate James Catnach biography with a rich street literature history book, Hindley traces how a small backroom printing office became a powerhouse of broadside ballads printing and early Victorian popular publishing, capturing the cries, songs, scandals and sensations that shaped everyday urban life and Victorian street culture. Part biography, part printing history study, this is also a revealing portrait of how cheap print travelled from press to pavement: who wrote it, who sold it, who sang or shouted it in the alleys and courts of the capital. For social historians, students of popular culture, and rare book collectors alike, Hindley's account opens a window onto a lost ecosystem of sellers, singers and printers whose work rarely reached the formal record. Today it stands as an essential source for anyone interested in Victorian street culture and the hidden infrastructure of print. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure.

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