A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts - eBook

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ISBN: 9781118653999

By: Mark Bland

Wiley-Blackwell / 2013 / ePub

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Title: A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts - eBook
By: Mark Bland
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781118653999
ISBN-13: 9781118653999
Stock No: WW39666EB

Publisher's Description

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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts provides an introduction to the language and concepts employed in bibliographical studies and textual scholarship as they pertain to early modern manuscripts and printed texts

Winner, Honourable Mention for Literature, Language and Linguistics, American Publishers Prose Awards, 2010
Based almost exclusively on new primary research
Explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties
Demonstrates how to use the information gleaned as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents
Makes clear why such matters are important and the purposes to which such information is put
Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh

Author Bio

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Mark Bland is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at De Montfort University, UK. He has published extensively on early printed books and manuscripts, paper, censorship, stemmatics, and editorial practice, as well as on Ben Jonson and his contemporaries. He is the editor of the forthcoming Oxford edition of The Poems of Ben Jonson