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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides a concise introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts. Focusing on documents from the late sixteenth and early mid-seventeenth century, the author explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties. This helpful Guide demonstrates how we are to use this information, together with an understanding of the processes of production and modification, as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents. An invaluable resource illuminating the complex relationship between the material processes and the meanings of the written and printed word, A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts is essential reading for anyone interested in book history and textual scholarship.

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PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

ISBN-101118492153

ISBN-139781118492154

eBay Product ID (ePID)159881374

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Number of Pages248 Pages

Publication NameGuide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Publication Year2013

TypeNot Available

AuthorMark Bland

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Référence

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"This is an absolutely essential book. We have excellent handbooks for English printed books and manuscripts, but no one book that takes us through every aspect of the making and circulation of texts, from paper to binding to reading. Mark Bland meets an urgent need."? Peter Stallybrass , University of Pennsylvania ?Bland's emphasis on the human element of textual production makes this introduction to bibliography attractively readable, where often the subject can seem arid to beginners, but it also is rooted in his conviction that the study of texts must always be grounded in an awareness of the people who contributed to every aspect of their creation.' (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, 2012) ?Showing an extensive knowledge of the scholarship in his field [Bland] provides an objective assessment, often correcting false reasoning and offering a sound explanation of the facts ? I believe that Mark Bland's Guide would be of help to anyone interested in the discipline.' (European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire, 18 July 2012) "Bland offers a clear and comprehensive guide to bibliography, and it is appropriate that it is most likely to come into its own as part of the work of making meaning, wedged open beneath a researcher's elbow." (The Review of English Studies, 23 December 2011) "This book is indeed a very practical, clear and valuable guide to books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . . . The book is well illustrated and Bland makes good use of the images, especially in his exemplary discussion in Chapter Two about how to use watermark evidence." (Script and Print, 1 August 2011) ?Wide-ranging and commendably concise, this handbook provides an up-to-date and practical guide to bibliographical concepts, methods and terminology ? This book will equip students, perhaps encountering sixteenth- and seventeenth-century texts for the first time, in their early printed or manuscript form (as distinct from modern editions), to approach bibliographical description and analysis without fear or confusion and, for those wishing to pursue the subject more widely, it will serve admirably as an introduction." (Routledge ABES, 2011) ?a gateway to some of the major works of bibliography? (Library and Information History, December 2010) ?Bland's ?Guide? is distinguished by intelligent and comprehensive coverage, by his extensive knowledge of current scholarship in the field, and by his personal research and rethinking.' (The Library, September 2011)

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal010.42

Intended AudienceTrade

Lc Classification NumberZ1001.B64 2013

Table of ContentIllustrative Materials viii Acknowledgments ix 1 A Guide for the Perplexed 1 2 Paper and Related Materials 22 3 The Structure of Documents 49 4 Producing Texts 83 5 Analysis and Evidence 122 6 Making Variants 149 7 Setting Conditions 183 8 Last Words 211 Selected Further Reading 219 Index 230