Patronage [ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… delivered. Their ‘reward’, besides obtaining the book, was the inclusion of their names in a list of subscribers printed at the front of the volume. Due to the public nature of the list and the mutually supportive role of social association (both subscribers and authors could gain cultural capital), one might even call this a form of print sociability. In any case, it was hardly possible to become a patron at a cheaper rate. The practice of publishing … in what was, as Alvin Kernan describes it, ‘the Magna Carta of the modern author’. 8 Johnson writes: 8 . Alvin Kernan, Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), p. 105. Is not a patron …
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