Abstract
Printer Joseph Moxon s legacy to print culture has suffered from myriad, often conflicting interpretations by book historians from the late nineteenth century to present day. Who really was Joseph Moxon (1627-1691), born in Wakefield, England the son of Puritan English printer James Moxon? Through a historical appraisal of Moxon s professional interests and associations with the Stationer s Company and the Royal Society of London, and a brief analysis of specific editorial aspects of Mechanick Exercises or, The Doctrine of Handy Works. Applied to the Art of Printing, this paper will first provide a clearer picture of Joseph Moxon as self-fashioning pragmatist and then redefine his place within print culture - that is, as a pivotal contributor not only to the mechanical art of printing but also to the standardisation of editorial practice.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 163 - 181 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 2015 |