Beschrijving
Original publisher’s cream cloth spine, gray paper-covered boards, black lettering spine, large 8vo: iv, 406pp., 18 essays [with illustrations – notes & references], bibliographical notes, correspondence, reviews, table of contents. ESSAYS: 1. Gerald D. Johnson: The Stationers versus the Drapers: control of the press in the late 16th century. 2.James K. Bracken: Books from William Stansby’s printing house, and Johnson’s folio of 1616. 3. John H. Appleby & John R. Millburn: Henry or Humphrey ? The Jacksons, 18th-Century chemists. 4. John Dreyfus: The invertion od spectacles and the advent of printing. 5. Mary C. Erler: Wynkyn de Worde’s will: Legatees and bequests. 6. Peter Beal: The most constant and best entertainement. Sir George Etherege’s reading in Ratisbon. 7. A.I. Doyle: The printed books of the last Monks of Durham. 8.Nicholas Orme: Martin Coeffin, the first Exeter publisher. 9. Thomas L. Berger: Press variants in substantive Shakespearian dramatic quartos. 10. Paul Oskas Kristeller: In search of renaissance manuscripts. 11. Susan H. Cavanaugh: Royal books: king John to Richard II. 12. Kim Walker: The printing and publishing of James Shirley’s ‘The Dukes Mistris’. 13. David Groves: James Hogg, London and the Royal Lady’s Magazine. 4 issues loose in cover. Very fine copy – as new. Volume: 6th Series Volume X: The Library. A Quarterly Journal of Bibliography.