| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 385 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
From manuscript to print : continuity and change / Julia Boffey -- Printers, publishers and promoters to 1558 / Tamara Atkin and A.S.G. Edwards -- Materials: paper and type / Pamela Robinson -- Bookbinding and early printing in England / Alexandra Gillespie -- Woodcuts and decorative techniques / Martha W. Driver -- Merchants / Anne F. Sutton -- The laity / Mary C. Erler -- The secular clergy / Susan Powell -- The regular clergy / James G. Clark -- Universities, colleges and chantries / James Willoughby -- Humanism and printing / Daniel Wakelin -- Women translators and the early printed book / Brenda M. Hosington -- The printed book trade in response to Luther : English books printed abroad / Andrew Hope -- Thomas More, print and the idea of censorship / Thomas Betteridge -- Catholicism, the printed book and the Marian Restoration / Lucy Wooding |
| Summary |
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Books -- Great Britain -- History -- 1450-1600
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Book industries and trade -- Great Britain -- History
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Incunabula -- Great Britain
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Incunabula.
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Book industries and trade.
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Books.
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gillespie, Vincent, 1954- editor.
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Powell, Susan, 1948- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781782042099 |
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1782042091 |
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