| English Books and Readers 1475 to 1557: Being a Study in the History of the Book Trade from Caxton to the Incorporation of the Stationers' Company Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bennett, H. S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521379881 ISBN-13: 9780521379885 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1991 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes |
| Dewey: 655.442 |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.98 lbs) 352 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this classic first volume of English Books and Readers, first published in 1952, H. S. Bennett covers in detail the history of books from Caxton down to the incorporation of the Stationers' Company, 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 civilization 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. |