The Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England / edited by Adam Smyth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smyth, Adam, 1972- editor.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--England--History--1450-1600.

Books.

Books--England--History--17th century.

Books and reading--England--History--16th century.

Books and reading.

Books and reading--England--History--17th century.

England.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

xxii, 739 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

History of the book in early modern England

Place of Publication:

Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"The Oxford Handbook of the History of the Book in Early Modern England provides a rich, imaginative and also accessible guide to the latest research in one of the most exciting areas of early modern studies. Written by scholars working at the cutting-edge of the subject, from the UK and North America, the volume considers the production, reception, circulation, consumption, destruction, loss, modification, recycling, and conservation of books from different disciplinary perspectives. Each chapter discusses in a lively manner the nature and role of the book in early modern England, as well as offering critical insights on how we talk about the history of the book. On finishing the Handbook, the reader will not only know much more about the early modern book, but will also have a strong sense of how and why the book as an object has been studied, and the scope for the development of the field."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Oxford handbook of the history of the book in early modern England.

ISBN:

9780198846239

0198846231

9780191881336

0191881333

OCLC:

1369518900

Publisher Number:

90102335953