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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سنة النشر:2008
اللغة:English
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وصف مادي:xx, 259 p. :; ill.
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جدول المحتويات:
  • 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.