The culture and commerce of texts : scribal publication in seventeenth-century England /
Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still preferred to publish their work through handwritten copies. Texts so transmitted included some of the most distinguished poetry and music of the seventeenth century, along with a rich variety of political, scientif...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
[1998]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I Scribal publication
- 1 The phenomenon
- 2 Publication in the scribal medium
- 3 Scribal production
- pt. II Script and society
- 4 Some metaphors for reading
- 5 The social uses of the scribally published text
- 6 Restoration scriptorial satire
- 7 The ambiguous triumph of print
- pt. III Editing scribally published texts
- 8 Editing scribally published texts.