International standard book number
9781107657854 (pbk.)
International standard book number
1107657857 (pbk.)
Title
The Cambridge history of the book in Britain. Volume IV, 1557-1695 / edited by John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie, with the assistance of Maureen Bell.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: History of the book in Britain
Edition
First paperback edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Physical description
xxvii, 891 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. (b&w) ; 23 cm.
Note
Originally published: 2002.
Formatted contents note
Contents: Introduction / Religious publishing in England 1557-1640 / Religious publishing in England 1640-1695 / Oral and scribal texts in early modern England / John Donne and the circulation of manuscripts / Music books / The Latin trade / Patronage and the printing of learned works for the author / University printing at Oxford and Cambridge / Editing the past: classical and historical scholarship / Maps and Atlases / The literature of travel / Science and the book / Samuel Hartlib and the commonwealth of learning / Ownership: private and public libraries / Monastic collections and their dispersal / Literature, the playhouse and the public / Milton / The Restoration poetic and dramatic canon / Non-conformist voices and books / Women writing and women written / The Bible trade / English law books and legal publishing / ABCs, almanacs, ballads, chapbooks, popular piety and textbooks / Books for daily life: household, husbandry, behaviour / The creation of the periodical press 1620-1695 / Printing and publishing 1557-1700: constraints on the London book trades / The economic context / French paper in English books / The old English letter foundries / Bookbinding / Mise-en-page, illustration, expressive form / The English provinces / Scotland / The book in Ireland from the Tudor re-conquest to the battle of the Boyne / Wales / British books abroad: the Continent / British books abroad: the American colonies / The stationers and the printing acts at the end of the seventeenth century / Statistical tables -- Survey of printing presses 1668 -- Apprentices bound in the Stationers' Company and what became of them 1557-1700. John Barnard -- Patrick Collinson, Arnold Hunt and Alexandra Walsham -- Ian Green and Kate Peters -- Harold Love -- Peter Beal -- Mary Chan -- Julian Roberts -- Graham Parry -- David Mckitterick -- Nicolas Barker -- Laurence Worms -- Michael G. Brennan -- Adrian Johns -- M. Greengrass -- Elisabeth Leedham-Green and David McKitterick -- James P. Carley -- John Pitcher -- Joad Raymond -- Paul Hammond -- Nigel Smith -- Maureen Bell -- B.J. McMullin -- J.H. Baker -- R.C. Simmons -- Lynette Hunter -- Carolyn Nelson and Matthew Seccombe -- D.F. Mckenzie -- James Raven -- John Bidwell -- Nicolas Barker -- Mirjam M. Foot -- Maureen Bell -- John Barnard and Maureen Bell -- Jonquil Bevan -- Robert Welch -- Philip Henry Jones -- P.G. Hoftijzer -- Hugh Amory -- Michael Treadwell --
Subject
Books Great Britain History.
Subject
Book industries and trade Great Britain History.
Added entry--name
Barnard, John editor.
Added entry--name
McKenzie, D. F (Donald Francis) (Donald Francis), editor.
Added entry--name
Bell, Maureen editor.
Added entry--place
England Cambridge.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B51747