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The press and the people : cheap print and society in Scotland, 1500-1785 /

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The Press and the People is the first full-length study of cheap print in early modern Scotland. It traces the production and distribution of ephemeral publications from the nation's first presses in the early sixteenth century through to the age of Burns in the late eighteenth. It explores the...

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Main Author:	Fox, Adam, 1964-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Subjects:	Publishers and publishing > Scotland > History. Popular literature > Scotland > History and criticism.

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