Used books : marking readers in Renaissance England / / William H. Sherman.
From the Publisher: 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...
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| Superior document: | Material texts |
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material texts.
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| Physical Description: | xx, 259 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Part 1: Of Marks And Methods
- 1: Introduction: Used books
- 2: Toward a history of the manicule
- 3: Reading the matriarchive
- Part 2: Reading And Religion
- 4: Book thus put in every vulgar hand: marking the Bible
- 5: Uncommon book of common prayer
- Part 3: Remarkable Readers
- 6: John Dee's Columbian encounter
- 7: Sir Julius Caesar's search engine
- Part 4: Renaissance Readers And Modern Collectors
- 8: Dirty books? attitudes toward readers' marks
- Afterword: Future of past readers
- List of abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.