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The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 3: 1400–1557

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Volume 3: 1400–1557

Edited by:
Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp

Online Publication Date:
March 2008

Print Publication Year:
1999

Hardback ISBN:
9780521573467

Online ISBN:
9781139053648

This volume presents a collection of essays with an overview of the century-and-a-half between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557. In this time of change the manuscript culture of Chaucer's day was replaced by an ambience in which printed books would become the norm. This volume traces the transition and discerns patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand with particular emphasis on imports and links with the Continent.

Reviews:

"The essays are truly ground-breaking.... All serious libraries will buy it; all students in the field will consult it regularly. Hellinga and Trapp and their collaborators have produced a volume which gets the Cambridge History off to a very fine start and certainly whets the appetite for more.... On the basis of this volume we can look forward to a national history which will fulfill its mandate well and complement both the existing and forthcoming accounts of the book elsewhere in Europe and in the English-speaking world." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
"The first to appear of a projected seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, VolumeIII firmliy grounds the entire project in the pivotal age of transition from the manuscript to the printed book, and in doing so provides its own milestone in the relatively recent but now thriving historical subdiscipline of book history." Albion
"a landmark contribution to our understanding of late-medieval and early-modern British cultural, intellectual, and social history. It is a tremendous achievement and is highly recommended." Speculum
"The individual essays are admirable in their ability to cover their subjects in general and to demonstrate and elaborate in specific examples...The introduction to this volume is also well worth reading and re-reading. It is a masterful account of what the editors describe as 'continuity in change' and is a survey against which all the other essays in the volume are meant to be, and should be, read." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America

Frontmatter
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pp. i-xxiv

Introduction by Lotte Hellinga and J. B. Trapp
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pp. 1-30

1 - Literacy, books and readers by J. B. Trapp
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pp. 31-44

TECHNIQUE AND TRADE

2 - Foreign illuminators and illuminated manuscripts by J. J. G. Alexander
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pp. 45-64

5 - The rise of London’s book-trade by C. Paul Christianson
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pp. 128-147

6 - The customs rolls as documents for the printed-book trade in England by Paul Needham
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pp. 148-163

7 - The book-trade under Edward VI and Mary I by John N. King
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pp. 164-178

8 - Importation of printed books into England and Scotland by Margaret Lane Ford
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pp. 179-202

COLLECTIONS AND OWNERSHIP

9 - Private ownership of printed books by Margaret Lane Ford
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pp. 203-228

10 - Monastic libraries: 1400–1557 by David N. Bell
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pp. 229-254

11 - The early royal collections and the Royal Library to 1461 by Jenny Stratford
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pp. 255-266

12 - The Royal Library from Edward IV to Henry VII by Janet Backhouse
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pp. 267-273

13 - The Royal Library under Henry VIII by James P. Carley
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pp. 274-282

READING AND USE OF BOOKS

I - BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS

15 - University libraries and book-sellers by Elisabeth Leedham-Green
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pp. 316-353

16 - Text-books in the universities: the evidence from the books by Kristian Jensen
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pp. 354-379

17 - Text-books: a case study – logic by E. J. Ashworth
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pp. 380-386

II - PROFESSIONS

20 - The books of the common law by J. H. Baker
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pp. 411-432

21 - Medicine and science by Peter Murray Jones
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pp. 433-448

III - THE LAY READER

22 - Schools and school-books by Nicholas Orme
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pp. 449-469

23 - Practical books for the gentleman by George R. Keiser
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pp. 470-494

24 - Devotional literature by Mary C. Erler
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pp. 495-525

25 - Gentlewomen’s reading by Carol M. Meale and Julia Boffey
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pp. 526-540

27 - Literary texts by Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards
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pp. 555-575

28 - Press, politics and religion by Pamela Neville-Sington
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pp. 576-607

Appendix
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pp. 608-610

Bibliography
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pp. 616-668

General index

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pp. 671-729

Index of manuscripts

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pp. 730-737

Bibliographic index of printed books

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pp. 738-743

Additional Materials

Plate Section
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