Used Books : : Marking Readers in Renaissance England / / William H. Sherman.
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 36 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Part I. Of Marks and Methods
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Used Books
- Chapter 2. Toward a History of the Manicule
- Chapter 3. Reading the Matriarchive
- Part II. Reading and Religion
- Chapter 4. ''The Book thus put in every vulgar hand'': Marking the Bible
- Chapter 5. An Uncommon Book of Common Prayer
- Part III. Remarkable Readers
- Chapter 6. John Dee's Columbian Encounter
- Chapter 7. Sir Julius Caesar's Search Engine
- Part IV. Renaissance Readers and Modern Collectors
- Chapter 8. Dirty Books? Attitudes Toward Readers' Marks
- Afterword. The Future of Past Readers
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments