English books & readers 1558 to 1603 : being a study in the history of the book trade in the reign of Elizabeth I

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English books & readers 1558 to 1603 : being a study in the history of the book trade in the reign of Elizabeth I

by H.S. Bennett

Cambridge University Press, 1965

  • : case
  • : pbk
  • : hard

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English books and readers 1558 to 1603

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注記

Bibliography: p. 301-305

Includes index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780521379892

内容説明

In this second volume of his classic English Books and Readers, first published in 1965, H. S. Bennett continues the story down to the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. His purpose is to give an account of the total output of books and pamphlets in this period, irrespective of their qualities as literature. He reveals a picture of astonishing variety and fertility. The part of it which concerns the production of imaginative, philosophical and religious books is fairly well known; but by far the larger proportion of the output of the printing presses consisted of such diverse products as histories and geographies, moral treatises, translations from the Classics, legal and medical text-books, writings on sports and pastimes, seamanship, primers of instruction in languages and music, the great and famous corpus of travel books, volumes of ballads and verses, and cheap and sensational pamphlets on such topics as monstrous births, strange creatures, the evil practices of witches and the diabolical objectives of traitors. Besides showing how the printers, booksellers and their allies made this enormously diverse mass of material readily available to the Elizabethan reading public, the author examines as well the relations between writers and readers.

目次

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The inception of a book
  • 2. Patronage
  • 3. The regulation of the book trade
  • 4. translations and translators
  • 5. The variety of books
  • 6. Printers and booksellers
  • Bibliography
  • Index.
巻冊次

: case ISBN 9780521379915

内容説明

This classic work, first published in 1952, covers in detail the history of books from Caxton to the eve of the Civil War, discussing the evidence for public literacy, the regulation of the book trade, the demand for books, the authors, translators and printers of early books, and their methods. It is a history of society at the opening of the Art of Printing, without which civilisation as we know it could hardly have taken shape at all - a chapter in the human story, unique in its significance and remarkably obscure before this book was first published. The author gives an account of the total output of books and pamphlets over the period, irrespective of their qualities as literature.

目次

  • Volume I: Prologue
  • 1. Caxton and his literary heritage
  • 2. Literacy
  • 3. The regulation of the book trade
  • 4. Patronage
  • 5. The demand for books
  • 6. The variety of books
  • 7. Translations and translators
  • 8. The printers
  • 9. The printing of the book
  • Appendix I
  • Appendix II
  • Bibliography
  • General index
  • Index of passages. Volume II: Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The inception of a book
  • 2. patronage
  • 3. The regulation of the book trade
  • 4. Translations and translators
  • 5. The variety of books
  • 6. Printers and booksellers
  • Bibliography
  • Index. Volume III: Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. The inception of a book
  • 2. Patronage
  • 3. The regulation of the book trade
  • 4. Piracy
  • 5. Translation and translators
  • 6. Literacy
  • 7. The variety of books
  • 8. Printers, booksellers and readers
  • Select bibliography
  • Index.

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