The Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Smyth, Adam, 1972- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford handbooks.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Ways of approaching the history of the book. An introduction : thinking about the history of the book Adam Smyth
  • The Handmaids' Tale : book history, Shakespeare, and women's textual labour Claire M. L. Bourne
  • Cataloguing the past : periodisation and the historiography of print Megan Heffernan
  • The scale of book history : data, distance, description Jeffrey Todd Knight
  • 'Inlaid with inkie spots of jet' : early modern book history and premodern critical race studies Brandi K. Adams
  • Religion and the history of the book Brian Cummings
  • Printing and book history : insights from practice Alexandra Franklin and Richard Lawrence
  • Monuments and trifles : which books do we use to tell the history of the book? Jason Scott-Warren
  • Part II. Making books. What was a printing shop, and what happened there? Paul W. Nash
  • Scribes, Compositors, Correctors Tamara Atkin
  • Authors Stephen B. Dobranski
  • Publishing Virginia (1608-15) : specialization, commissioning, networks Kirk Melnikoff
  • Regional book and print trades Rachel Stenner
  • Representing the labour of printing in image and text Katherine Hunt
  • Printing and the universities Jason Peacey
  • Illustrated books Michael Hunter
  • Typography James Misson
  • Beyond the book : non-codex texts Harriet Phillips
  • Science and the book in early modern England
  • Adrian Johns
  • Waste, offcuts, remains, reuse : or, what is the history of books in pieces? Anna Reynolds
  • Part III. Moving books : selling, circulating, borrowing, imagining. 'The book-sellars shop' : Browsing, Reading, and Buying in early modern England Ben Higgins
  • Internationalism and the English book trade Hanna de Lange and Andrew Pettegree
  • 'A gifte of good moment' : a new history of the stationers' benevolence to the Bodleian Library, 1610 to 1616 Tara L. Lyons
  • Translingual and multi-lingual print A. E. B. Coldiron
  • Contexts for Circulation : universities, inns of court, households, and professional circles Michelle O'Callaghan
  • From Duck Lane to Lazarus Seaman : buying and selling old books in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries H. R. Woudhuysen
  • Conversations about time and space : early modern books and contemporary artists' books Sujata Iyengar
  • The early modern book as metaphor Jeff Dolven
  • Part IV. Using books : reading and marking, collecting and preserving. Past, present, and future : early modern collections and the work of a curator Caroline Duroselle-Melish
  • Self-reading books : marginalia, prosopopoeia and book history Emma Smith
  • Book modification Georgina Wilson
  • Early modern books and phonography Bruce R. Smith
  • Transience and loss Alexandra Hill
  • Owning, preserving, and transmitting the text : early modern libraries and their users / David Pearson
  • Provenance narratives in the twenty-first century / Kathryn James
  • Broken books and fragile print : a conservation perspective / Nikki Tomkins
  • The history of the early modern book in the digital age / Whitney Trettien.