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The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills : The Lives and Afterlives of a Seventeenth-Century Printer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Durrant, Michael.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hills, Henry, approximately 1625-1689.
- Printers.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Great Britain.
- Local Subjects:
- Hills, Henry, approximately 1625-1689.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- 'The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills' re-examines the life of one of the most provocative printers operating in seventeenth-century England. Rather than offering a more conventional cradle-to-grave biographical narrative, however, this compelling book explores how Henry Hills's reputation, his notoriety, and his legacy has evolved over time. Richly illustrated and thoroughly researched, The dreadful name contributes fresh insights into Hills's life and afterlife, and it offers new perspectives on how early modern book-trade agents, and printers in particular, might be remembered and reinterpreted in contemporary book historical scholarship.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Endings: an introduction
- Burning down the house
- Penitential peas
- Fingerprints
- The dreadful name of Henry Hills
- Notes
- Chapter 1: Beginnings: starting out and starting over in seventeenth-century print
- A very Proteus
- H.H. printer's conduct
- Rider Hill
- Player's boy
- A Catechisme for Babes
- Chapter 2: Queering the books: writingthe lives of The Life of H.H.
- A new experimental exposition
- To Duke Street
- Between the covers
- Sealed in the 3 tons tavern
- She-bear
- Chapter 3: Reading Henry Hills's imprints: 'By the tree we may know the ensuing fruits'
- Dalton's cave
- Hils
- The Lyrick Poet
- Like sign like wine
- Chapter 4: In Horoscope's library: bibliography, conspiracy, and the 'King's Book'
- A forward, and confiding man
- So hard a text
- The Devil is indeed the accuser
- Mend the printers faults
- The leading witness
- Horoscope's library
- Chapter 5: Pirates, parents, and print: reading Henry Hills's will
- Suit trouble
- Shoplifter
- Taylor's custom
- Beyond the sea
- Stationer
- Bibliography
- Manuscripts consulted
- Printed sources
- Unpublished sources
- Online sources
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-2940-X
- 9781526129406
- OCLC:
- 1573659500
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