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Book SynopsisBringing together a broad range of case studies written by a team of international scholars, this Concise Companion establishes how manuscripts and printed books met the needs of two different approaches to literacy in the early modern period.Trade ReviewAt a time when so much literary theory seems to disdain engagement with textual artifacts, this volume reminds us of the critical importance of the forensic analysis of modes of literary production and transmission by asserting that literature is always a handicraft, a thing made to be possessed and repossessed. - Stephen W. Brown, Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Journal, 2016.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiv Introduction xvEdward Jones Part I Manuscript Studies 1 1 Stanford University's Cavendish Manuscript: Wolsey, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, and Milton 3Elaine Treharne 2 Texts Presented to Elizabeth I on the University Progresses 21Sarah Knight 3 Analysing a Private Library, with a Shelflist Attributable to John Hales of Eton, c.1624 41William Poole 4 Young Milton in His Letters 66John K. Hale 5 The Itinerant Sibling: Christopher Milton in London and Suffolk 87Edward Jones 6 Milton, the Attentive Mr Skinner, and the Acts and Discourses of Friendship 106Cedric C. Brown Part II Printed Books 129 7 Printing the Gospels in Arabic in Rome in 1590 131Neil Harris 8 Tyranny and Tragicomedy in Milton's Reading of The Tempest 150Karen L. Edwards 9 The Earliest Miltonists: Patrick Hume and John Toland 171Thomas N. Corns 10 The Ghost of Rhetoric: Milton's Logic and the Renaissance Trivium 188Jameela Lares Part III Production, Dissemination, Appropriation 207 11 Misprinting Bartholomew Fair: Jonson and 'The Absolute Knave' 209John Creaser 12 Reliquiae Baxterianae and the Shaping of the Seventeenth Century 229N.H. Keeble 13 Marvell and the Dutch in 1665 249Martin Dzelzainis 14 Did Milton Read Selden? 266Sharon Achinstein 15 Hands On 294Neil Forsyth 16 Shakespeare with a Difference: Dismembering and Remembering Titus Andronicus in Heiner Müller's and Brigitte Maria Mayer's Anatomie Titus 322Pascale Aebischer By Ferry, Foot, and Fate: A Tour in the Hebrides 346Andrew McNeillie Index 354

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Book SynopsisIn this pioneering work, based upon interviews with many of the surviving protagonists, Cornelis ('Cees') Andriesse tells the story of the role that Dutch publishing houses played in the rise of English language commercial science publishing after the Second World War, that was preceded by the decline of science publishing in German. Using the existing literature as well as many privately held archival sources, the author follows the fortunes of the leading publishers, Martinus Nijhoff, Elsevier and North Holland while also briefly discussing smaller houses like Dr. W. Junk and Reidel. The book contains lively portraits of the main characters involved and will no doubt stimulate further research and discussion of the role of publishing in the history of science. The authors’ main thesis that successful publishing requires a strong, fruitful partnership between an academic publisher and an academic editor, will no doubt convince most readers. This is a great book on the most productive friendships and partnerships in the history of science publishing.Trade Review"Andriesse's history is lively and compelling, perhaps surprisingly so for a history of scientific publishing, and he provides the reader with valuable information and provocative insights." Mary Jo Nye, BMGN - The Low Countries Historical Review, 126: 3, 137-138 "At times abruptly and unsuspectingly prosaic, Andriesse gives us a book in which context and personal relations expose the historical and human dynamics of the apparently harsh world of science publishing." Arnold Lubbers, University of Amsterdam. In: Library & Information History " A ... breathtaking contribution to the history of Dutch scientific publishing in the world." Berry Dongelmans, Leiden University. In: De Gulden Paser, 89.1 (2011), pp. 91-92.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations 1. On Science Publishing 2. The Publisher of Huygens and Lorentz Quest for the Lingua Franca 3. German Scenes Two Scenes from 1942 A Letter and Three Scenes from 1938 Two and a Half Scenes from 1933 4. Elsevier’s Venture The Encyclopaedia of Organic Chemistry The Little Beilstein The Book of Health Biochimica et Biophysica Acta 5. Frank and his ‘North-Holland’ The Choice for Physics Monographs on Theoretical and Applied Physics The Quest for Journal Editors 6. Beyond Physics Excerpta Medica Biological Publications Philosophical Diversions 7. The Associated Scientific Publishers The Dissolution of Boundaries The Integration 8. Saturation 9. Towards the Internet Revolution Manuscript Sources and Interviews Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDuring recent decades much has been written about early modern book distribution, but until now Norway has been absent from the discussion. Drawing on book listings, this study seeks to fill this lacuna by exploring the market for books in early modern Norway. Its approach is multifaceted: consideration of the types of books accessed by different elements of Norwegian society is set alongside developments within the book market itself, such as the extended life of popular books, the gradual replacement of Latin by the vernacular and the rise in the eighteenth century in the number of books available on the market. The study demonstrates the internationality of the Norwegian book market while acknowledging specific patterns that determine its Norwegian character.Trade Review“As a first general and comprehensive survey of what types of books were distributed and circulated in Norway in the early modern period, this book is a highly welcome research contribution to the scarcely covered field of book history in Norway and serves as a gateway into the vast topics within a research field that has yet to be studied in a Norwegian context. Internationally, it provides scholars with material for comparison, while on a national level it must be considered as a reference work.” Ane Ohrvik, University of Oslo. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Summer 2013) , pp. 707-709.Table of ContentsChapter 1 – Introduction Chapter 2 –Books and Their Distribution 2.1 Historical background 2.2 Book market regulations 2.3 Sales outlets Chapter 3 – Books of Ordinary People 3.1 Schooling and reading 3.2 Inventories in rural areas 3.3 Books in stock in urban areas 3.4 Changes in book patterns in the late eighteenth century Chapter 4 – Books of the Clergy 4.1 Clerical education 4.2 Books originating in Germany 4.3 Books from the Netherlands and England 4.4 Changes towards the end of the eighteenth century Chapter 5 – Books and the Liberal Arts 5.1 The artes training 5.2 The artes reception 5.3 The variety of the classical legacy Chapter 6 – Books on Medicine 6.1. Physicians and their educational background 6.2 The books of university-trained physicians 6.3 Medical works among other sections of society Chapter 7 – Books on Jurisprudence 7.1 Jurists and their educational background 7.2 Books on jurisprudence circulating among the various officials 7.3 Books on jurisprudence owned by other sections of society Chapter 8 – Enlightenment and Expansion 8.1 Enlightenment and change 8.2 The Norwegian case: structural changes in the world of books 8.3 Literary genres and ‘other worlds’ Chapter 9 – Books for Entertainment 9.1 Tales, stories and novels 9.2 Travel literature 9.3 Esoteric literature Chapter 10 – Conclusion Appendix 1 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCheap print moved across Europe in surprising ways, crossing unusual distances by unusual routes and by unusual means. Pedlars, news, and cheap print defy the conventional categories and models of distribution: we need to think about their extraordinary diversity, and about the means by which their unstable cultural images inflect distribution. Books were not dead things, and the examination of Italy, the Netherlands and Britain, three regions that contain instructive parallels and contrasts, reveals their unpredictable liveliness. This collection of essays, which emerges from transnational dialogues about pedlars and commerce and communication, examines the various means by which cheap print moved across Europe, and the cultural and material and economic premises of the European landscape of print. Contributors include: Alberto Milano; Jason Peacey; Jeroen Salman; Jo Thijssen; Joad Raymond; Joop Koopmans; Karen Bowen; Kate Peters; Melissa Calaresu; Roeland Harms; Rosa Salzberg; Sean Shesgreen.Trade Review“The papers are well documented and the book is nicely produced and adequately indexed. … One of the strengths of the volume is the more than sixty interesting illustrations included in several of the essays, many of which are not widely known.” David Stoker, Aberystwyth University. In: Publishing History, Vol. 72 (2012), pp. 159-163.Table of ContentsList of illustrations Contributors Preface 1. Roeland Harms, Joad Raymond and Jeroen Salman Introduction: the distribution and dissemination of popular print Part I: Distribution Networks and the Popular Press 2. Rosa Salzberg Print peddling and urban culture in Renaissance Italy 3. Jeroen Salman Pedlars in the Netherlands (1600-1850): nuisance or necessity? 4. Alberto Milano ‘Selling prints for the Remondini’: Italian pedlars from the Tesino and Natisone Valleys travelling through Europe during the eighteenth century 5. Jason Peacey ‘Wandering with Pamphlets’: the infrastructure of news circulation in civil war England Part II: The Iconography of Itinerant Distribution 6. Sean Shesgreen The Cries of London from the Renaissance to the Victorian age: a short history 7. Karen Bowen Peddling in texts and images: the Dutch visual perspective, 1600-1850 8. Melissa Calaresu Costumes and customs in print: travel, ethnography, and the representation of street-sellers in early modern Italy Part III: The Dissemination of News, Politics, Religion and Entertainment 9. Kate Peters The dissemination of Quaker pamphlets in the 1650s 10. Joad Raymond International news and the seventeenth-century English newspaper 11. Joop Koopmans Storehouses of news: the meaning of early modern news periodicals 12. Roeland Harms ‘All the world is led and rul’d by Opinion’: a comparison of printed political news in two seventeenth century Dutch conflicts and the English civil war 13. Jo Thijssen The development and distribution of the first Dutch educational print series, 1800-1820 Index

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Book SynopsisThe Reformation is often alluded to as Gutenberg’s child. Could it then be said that the Counter-Reformation was his step-child? The close relationship between the Reformation, the printing press and books has received extensive, historiographical attention, which is clearly justified; however, the links between books and the Catholic world have often been limited to a tale of censorship and repression. The current volume looks beyond this, with a series of papers that aim to shed new light on the complex relationships between Catholicism and books during the early modern period, before and after the religious schism, with special focus on trade, common reads and the mechanisms used to control readership in different territories, together with the similarities between the Catholic and the Protestant worlds. Contributors include: Stijn Van Rossem, Rafael M. Pérez García, Pedro J. Rueda Ramírez, Idalia García Aguilar, Bianca Lindorfer, Natalia Maillard Álvarez, and Adrien Delmas.Trade Review“Maillard’s is an excellent compilation, which sheds light on the different topics studied, and will undoubtedly invite further scholarship on book circulation, control, and readership in the early modern period.” Marta M. Nadales, Complutense University of Madrid. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Winter 2014), pp. 1430-1432. “All contributors made their investigations in libraries all over Europe and the Americas, resulting in an impressively rich account, based on abundant evidence of facts and figures. Book historians dealing with Catholic books in the early modern period will certainly be grateful for the in-depth analysis of new sources and little-known subjects, and for the results of this collective analysis of everyday practice in the bookish culture of the early modern Catholic world.” Anton van der Lem, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 46, No 4 (2016), pp. 373-376.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Natalia Maillard Álvarez 1. The Verdussens and the International Trade in Catholic Books (Antwerp, Seventeenth Century) Stijn Van Rossem 2. The Globalization of the European Book Market: Diego Crance’s Catalogus librorum (Seville, 1680) and the Sale of Books in New Spain Pedro Rueda Ramírez 3. Communitas Christiana: The Sources of Christian Tradition in the Construction of Early Castilian Spiritual Literature, ca. 1400–1540 Rafael M. Pérez García 4. Italian Literature in the Hispanic World during the Early Modern Period (Seville and Mexico City) Natalia Maillard Álvarez 5. Aristocratic Book Consumption in the Seventeenth Century: Austrian Aristocratic Book Collectors and the Role of Noble Networks in the Circulation of Books from Spain to Austria Bianca Lindorfer 6. Before we are Condemned: Inquisitorial Fears and Private Libraries of New Spain Idalia García Aguilar 7. Artem Quaevis Terra Alit: Books in the Cape Colony during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Adrien Delmas Bibliography Index of Names

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Book SynopsisInternational Exchange in the Early Modern Book World presents new research on several aspects of the movement and exchange of books between countries, languages and confessions. It considers elements of the international book trade, the circulation and collection of texts, the practice of translation and the diffusion and exchange of technical and cultural knowledge. Commercial and logistical aspects of the early modern book trade are considered, as are the relationships between local markets and the internationally-minded firms which sought to meet their expectations. The barriers to the movement of books across borders – political, linguistic, confessional, cultural – are explored, as are the means by which these barriers were surmounted.Trade Review“The incredibly rich and varied contributions in this volume reflect the current vibrancy of book history and underline how international the book world was in the first age of print, in terms of its agents and actors, authors and readers.” Alexander Samson, University College London. In: Publishing History, Vol. 80 (2019), pp. 107-112.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Preface PART ONE The International Book Trade: Business without Borders 1. Sales Channels for Bestsellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe Valentina Sebastiani 2. International Publishing and Local Needs: the Breviaries and Missals Printed by Plantin for the Spanish Crown Benito Rial Costas 3. Centre and Periphery? Relations between Frankfurt and Bologna in the Transnational Book Trade of the 1600s Caroline Duroselle-Melish 4. Selling Books in the Italian Renaissance. The Correspondence of Giovanni Bartolomeo Gabiano (1522) Angela Nuovo 5. Plantin and the French Book Market Malcolm Walsby PART TWO Cultural Transmissions and Political Exchange 6. Books as a Means of Transcultural Exchange between the Habsburgs and the Ottomans Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik 7. ‘This Book Hath Been Often Call’d For’: Translations of Italian Works on the Dutch Revolt and the European Book Market Nina Lamal 8. The Pike and the Printing Press: Military Handbooks and the Gentrification of the Early-Modern Military Revolution Mark R. Geldof PART THREE Libraries, Collections, Ownership 9. How to Build a Library across Early-Modern Europe: the Network of Claude Expilly Shanti Graheli 10. Books without Borders. The Presence of the European Printing Press in the Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century Giovanna Granata 11. Angelica’s Book: the Power of Reading in Late Renaissance Florence Brendan Dooley PART FOUR Moving Music and Translating Tongues: Literature and Music between Countries 12. Confessional Networks, Cultural Exchange and the Printed Music of Jerome Commelin (ca.1550–1597) Matthew Laube 13. Sellers and Buyers of Italian Music around 1700: the Silvani Firm and G.B. Bassani’s Music in Italy and Central Europe Huub van der Linden 14. Translating Renaissance Drama: Networks, Platforms, Apps Anston Bosman 15. «Catullum Numquam Antea Lectum […] Lego»: a Short Analysis of Catullus’ Fortune in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Alina Laura de Luca 16. Intertraffic: Transnational Literatures and Languages in Late Renaissance England and Europe Warren Boutcher Index

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Book SynopsisDenis Janot is the prime example of a vernacular printer espousing the highest standards of French Renaissance printing, highly influential in the adoption of roman type to the printing of vernacular material, and a key figure in the development of book illustration. This bibliography, a comprehensive revison of the author’s Warwick Ph.D. thesis of 1976, listing 391 editions (41 more than the original version), is based firmly on the description of Janot’s books. Some 1300 copies have been examined, about 80% of the known total. Alongside the bibliography there is an description of Janot’s printing material (including an index of more than 1000 woodcuts), and some analysis of the subjects of his publications.Trade Review“The compilation of such a comprehensive and detailed bibliography, with its interpretative apparatus, concerning the remarkable output of an early modern printer, is an impressive undertaking. Rawles’s volume will certainly become the scholarly reference for Janot, as well as a notable exemplar of descriptive bibliography for early printed books.” Diane Booton, Université Rennes 2. In: French Studies, Vol. 73, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 286-287. “a useful tool in the research of Paris printing in the sixteenth century.” Frans A. Janssen, University of Amsterdam. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 48, No. 3 (2018), pp. 263-265. “a very thorough piece of work.” David Shaw. In: Publishing History, Vol. 79 (2019), pp. 125-127. “the crowning achievement of decades of meticulous research”. Shanti Graheli, University of Glasgow. In: Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, No. 13 (2018).Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Illustrations 1 Denis Janot: Career  1.1 Rue de Marchepalu: 1529–1530  1.2 Partnership with Alain Lotrian: 1530–1532 or Later  1.3 Other Early Work: 1530–1532  1.4 ‘Au premier pilier’, An Independent Career: 1532–1534  1.5 1534–1536: Seeking a Personal Style  1.6 1537–1540: Consolidation and Specialisation  1.7 1541–1544: Mature Success 2 Denis Janot: Context and Achievement  2.1 Major Areas of Production 3 Printing Materials  3.1 Typefaces  3.2 Marks  3.3 Initials  3.4 Compartments, Frames, Type Ornaments  3.5 Woodcuts 4 Non-Bibliographical Texts Bibliography Introduction List of Libraries Bibliographic Entries Appendix 1: Editions Attributed to Janot Appendix 2: Table des Livres de Denys Janot Bibliography of Works Cited Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an expansive survey of the role of single-sheet publishing in the European print industry during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Drawing on new materials made available during the compilation of the Universal Short Title Catalogue, the twenty contributors explore the extraordinary range of broadsheet publishing and its contribution to government, pedagogy, religious devotion and entertainment culture. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge both as a crucial communication medium and an essential underpinning of the economics of the publishing industry.Trade Review“This volume will be of great interest to researchers and professionals in history and archival and information science. – Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” J.L. Newman, Hunter College, City University of New York. In: Choice, Vol. 55, No. 7 (March 2018). “This excellent volume demonstrates the value of collaborative, integrated, and wide-ranging work on broadsheets. It is not only an immensely valuable reference work in itself; it also points the way to further discoveries and new understandings of the multivalent role of this ubiquitous format in the future.” Elma Brenner, Angela McShane, and Julia Nurse, Wellcome Collection. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 276–277. “This volume represents an important and valuable addition to the study of the early modern broadsheet. [...] it will be a necessary accession for many research libraries and will be a key point of reference for individuals working in the field”. Kelsey Jackson Williams, University of Stirling. In: Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, No. 13 (2018).Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Andrew Pettegree, Single-sheet publishing in the first age of print: typology and topography 2. Flavia Bruni, Early Modern Broadsheets between Archives and Libraries: a Possible Integration? 2. Surveys 3. Alexander S. Wilkinson, Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz, Spanish Broadsheets: 1472-1700 4. Falk Eisermann, Fifty Thousand Veronicas. Print runs of broadsheets in the fifteenth and early sixteenth century 5. Drew Thomas, Reconstructing Wittenberg’s Broadsheet History 3. Official print 6. Flavia Bruni, In the name of God: governance, public order and theocracy in the broadsheets of the Stampa Camerale of Rome 7. Jamie Cumby, Bread and Fairs: Broadsheet Printing for the Municipality of Lyon, 1497-1570 8. Shanti Graheli, Collections of Italian Ordinance Broadsheets in Parisian Libraries c. 1500-1650 9. Nina Lamal, Merchants and broadsheets: the case of the van der Meulen family 10. Arthur der Weduwen, “Everyone has hereby been warned.” The Structure and Typography of Broadsheet Ordinances and the Communication of Governance in the Early Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 4. Politics 11. Johan Verberckmoes & Violet Soen, Flying broadsheets. Broadsheets testing moderation in the nascent Dutch Revolt 12. Jan Hillgaertner, The King is Dead. German Broadsheets printed on the death of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles I 13. John Roger Paas, The German Political Broadsheet of the Seventeenth Century. Reflections on a malleable genre 5. Broadsheets in the Academic World 14. Richard Kirwan, Function in Form: single sheet items and the utility of cheap print in the early modern university 15. Malcolm Walsby, Cheap print and the academic market: The printing of dissertations in sixteenth-century Louvain 16. Saskia Limbach, Printing medical disputations in Basel: A compelling but competitive business 6. Broadsheets in the Marketplace 17. Amelie Roper, Music broadsheets of the German Reformation: Production, Performance and Persuasion 18. Alexandra Hill, The Lamentable Tale of Lost Ballads in London, 1557-1640 19. Abaigéal Warfield, Witchcraft illustrated: the crime of witchcraft in early modern German broadsheets 20. Graeme Kemp, Selling books by Broadsheet: A Sales Catalogue of Marie Flo Savreux, marchand-libraire

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Book SynopsisBLAST at 100 makes an original contribution to the understanding of a major modernist magazine. Providing new critical readings that consider the magazine’s influence within contexts that have not been acknowledged before – in the development of Irish and Spanish literature and culture in the twentieth century, for example, as well as in the areas of cultural studies, performance studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning – BLAST at 100 reconsiders the magazine’s complex legacy. In addition to situating the magazine in new and often unexpected contexts, BLAST at 100 also offers important new insights into the work of some of its most significant contributors, including Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West. Contributors are: Philip Coleman, Simon Cutts, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Angela Griffith, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kathryn Laing, Christopher Lewis, J.C.C. Mays, Kathryn Milligan, Yolanda Morató, Nathan O’Donnell, Alex Runchman, Colm Summers, Tom WalkerTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1 Introduction: ‘Storm from the North’  Nathan O’donnell and Philip Coleman Part 1: Textual and Contextual Re-Readings 2 BLAST Then and Now: With Expletive of Whirlwind  Andrzej Gąsiorek 3 Soillure, Bomb Blasts, and Volcanic Chaos: Reading the Poetry of Blast  Alex Runchman 4 Am I a Vorticist ?: Re-Reading Rebecca West’s Indissoluble Matrimony and BLAST  Kathryn Laing 5 BLAST and the Canon: Exploring Lewis’s ‘A Review of Contemporary Art’  Kathryn Milligan Part 2: Blast and Ireland 6 Our More Profound Pre-Raphaelitism: W.B. Yeats, Aestheticism and BLAST  Tom Walker 7 Springs of Creation: BLAST and Irish Art  Nathan O’donnell 8 Visualising To-morrow: An Irish Modernist Periodical  Angela Griffith Part 3: Enemy of the Stars Reconsidered 9 Beyond Nietzsche: Savage Worship in Enemy of the Stars  Christopher Lewis 10 Enemy of the Stars in Performance  Nicholas E. Johnson and Colm Summers Part 4: Critical and Creative Legacies 11 Lewis-Pound-Mcluhan, BLAST and COUNTERBLAST: Connections, Comparisons, and Some Personal Reflections  J.C.C. Mays 12 Recreating BLAST in Spanish: Composition, Editing, Translation, and Annotation  Yolanda Morató 13 BLAST in the Classroom  Philip Coleman 14 The Collective Work in the Critical Mode: Afterword  Simon Cutts Index

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