{"id":181,"date":"2014-09-13T22:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=181"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T21:19:13","slug":"commodities-and-afterlives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Commodities and afterlives"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst my interest in Macintosh’s\u00a0Travels<\/em> centres primarily on its\u00a0contemporary significance and reading, the status of the\u00a0book as a commodity points to no-less-interesting questions\u00a0to do with its afterlife (that is to say, with what happened to the book\u2014and to Macintosh’s ideas\u2014when they had lost their contemporary currency). That a market for\u00a0Travels<\/em>\u00a0continued to exist after Macintosh’s death\u00a0is evidenced not only by its current status<\/a> as a rare and collectable\u00a0book, but by its circulation in the nineteenth century.<\/p>\n

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A classified advertisement placed in the “Books Wanted to Purchase” section of\u00a0The Publishers’ Circular<\/em>\u00a0(1 June 1850) by the London firm Taylor, Walton, and Maberly indicates, for example, that nearly three-quarters of a century after the original publication of Travels<\/em>, there was a market for it\u00a0(albeit a market that was\u00a0somewhat uncertain with regard to the book’s bibliographical specifics). Given that\u00a0Taylor, Walton, and Maberly was official bookseller and publisher to University College, London, it is possible that the firm\u00a0had been commissioned in its\u00a0search for\u00a0Travels<\/em> by an academic member of staff at the college. Whatever motivation lay behind the search for\u00a0Travels<\/em> in this case, it is yet another\u00a0suggestive fragment of evidence which helps to illuminate something of the book’s afterlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst my interest in Macintosh’s\u00a0Travels centres primarily on its\u00a0contemporary significance and reading, the status of the\u00a0book as a commodity points to no-less-interesting questions\u00a0to do with its afterlife (that is to say, with what happened to the book\u2014and to Macintosh’s ideas\u2014when they had lost their contemporary currency). That a market for\u00a0Travels\u00a0continued to exist after Macintosh’s death\u00a0is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inneskeighren.com\/williammacintosh\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}