Publisher<\/h3>\n
Alex was a publisher who intended to make book more affordable to people:<\/p>\n
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- Most of the other books about Cook\u2019s journey costed an average of 20 guineas-equivalent to 3250 USD today (relative to the increase in price of the other commodities) while for this particular book that we are talking about, it costed around 76 pence-equivalent to 49 USD today (using the same method used above), which is only 1.5\u00a0percent of the market price at that time<\/strong>!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
By searching on ESTC, there were a total of 4 editions of this book:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nAbout 4 editions were made and were all published in London<\/strong> and printed by the same people.<\/p>\n
Since my book was published in 1784, it\u2019s very likely that it might be the 1st<\/sup> edition. As I suppose for this particular book that is cheaper than the others in the market, they might need to make more editions and sell more in order to make more moneys.<\/p>\n
Author<\/h3>\n
For Anderson, he was believed to be pseudonym of the publisher-Alex<\/a>. Hogg, and \u201cVoyage Around the World\u201d is very likely to be the first book he got published. The two other books written by him and were published are \u201cSeaforth songs: ballads and sketches, with several illustrations\u201d (1890) and \u201cLighting Pamphlets\u201d (1800).<\/p>\n
By looking through the title pages of these two books, they are not very relevant to \u201cVoyages Around the World\u201d; this means he wasn\u2019t an author who only writes certain type of literatures.<\/p>\n
Printer<\/h3>\n
Different from the author and publisher, I didn\u2019t really find the name of the printer for this book, but I did see the print shop\u2019s address on ESTC multiple times.<\/p>\n
After I put in this address to the google map, this is the place I found:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nEven though this place is no longer a printing shop or any building related to literature, it\u2019s not hard to imagine how popular this place was 250 years ago when all the book trades and printings were going on.<\/p>\n
Binder<\/h3>\n
In order to bind the printed pages together, we need a binder to do this. However, there doesn\u2019t seem to be any information about binder that I found since I didn\u2019t even find the printer\u2019s name. However, I suppose that the printer isn\u2019t the same as the publisher & author since on the last page of the text, there\u2019s a page stating the procedure for binding the book:<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nReader<\/h3>\n
The target audience of this book is very wide.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nAs described on the first page, this book is available for people who want to know more about Captain Cook\u2019s voyage and the discoveries he made during this voyage. There\u2019s no explicit limit on the type of people eligible for reading this book.<\/p>\n
Previous owner of the book<\/h3>\n
After talking about the origin of this book close to its birth time, it\u2019s also interesting to understand how this book came to Colby.<\/p>\n
Though I didn\u2019t find the exact person who took this book oversea, I successfully found the owner of this book before the book came to Colby.<\/p>\n
According to a tag on the first page of this book, this book was given by Miss Dorothy Dennett after James Vaughan Dennett in February 1965 died in 1965.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nThis is Mr. James Vaughan Dennett, who used to be one of the illustrative presidents of the Saco Museum.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nSaco Museums<\/p>\n
Along with this book, Miss Dennett also donated a lot of other books, and due to her generosity, we are able to have some of these books in special collection to study about.<\/p>\n
Hyperlinks<\/h3>\n
Info about publisher and author<\/a><\/p>\n
Info about currency conversion<\/a><\/p>\n
The other book the author wrote #1<\/a><\/p>\n