A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-17

Description: A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 by Maureen Bell, Donald McKenzie Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Provides an access to information about the authors, printers, and distributors of books in the later seventeenth century. This work allows an insight into the day-to-day workings of the book trade. It is intended for literature specialists, bibliographers, and historians of book production, and also for economic, social, and political historians. Publisher Description The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 presents abstracts of documents relating to the book trade and book production between 1641 and 1700. It brings together in one sequence edited abstracts of entries referring to named books, printers, and booksellers selected from the manuscripts of the Stationers Company Court Books; all references to printing, publishing, bookselling, and the book trade occurring inmajor historical printed sources (Calendar of State Papers Domestic; the Journals of the Houses of Lords and Commons; Reports of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts) ; and entries for contemporarypamphlets. The labour records of the printing and bookselling trades probably represent the fullest account of any work force in early modern England and the printed products of the trade survive in such great numbers that they enable us to examine them for evidence not only of who made and sold them but also of how they were made. These volumes constitute a reference work of importance not only for literature specialists, bibliographers, and historians of book production but alsofor economic, social, and political historians. Not only do they bring together records from a variety of separate printed sources, thereby making explicit their interconnections, but also they makeaccessible some less well-known manuscript sources, notably from the Stationers Company archives. Most importantly the Chronology and Calendar extends the earlier work of Arber, Greg, and Jackson on the earlier seventeenth century. As a chronological sequence the volumes meet the need for a preliminary narrative history of the trade in the later seventeenth century; and the provision of title, name, and topic indexes renders this an indispensable reference tool for research into thesocial, political, and economic contexts of the book trade, its personnel, and its printed output. Author Biography D.F. McKenzie was the leading bibliographer of his generation, and his Panizzi Lectures on Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts revolutionized Anglo-American approaches to bibliography and the history of the book. He was a most stimulating and influential teacher: at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he was Professor of English Language and Literature 1969-87, and in Oxford, as Lyell Reader in Bibliography and as Professor of Bibliography andTextual Criticism. He was the driving force in the planning of the multi-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, in progress, and his major edition of Congreve, close to completion at his death, isbeing seen through its final stages by Christine Ferdinand (married to McKenzie in 1994) and is shortly to be published by Oxford University Press. The McKenzie Trust was established after his death to promote excellence in teaching and research and there is an annual McKenzie Lecture in Oxford in June. Maureen Bell was formerly a schoolteacher and librarian, and met McKenzie for the first time in 1987 when he acted as external examiner for her PhD thesis on women in the seventeenth-centurybook trade. As Leverhulme Fellow at the Institute of Bibliography, University of Leeds (1990-2) she worked on the quantification of English printing 1475-1700 and, with John Barnard, published The EarlySeventeenth-century York Book Trade and John Fosters Inventory of 1616 (1994). She has published widely on women in the seventeenth-century book trade and was contributor and Assistant Editor to volume IV of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Director of the British Book Trade Index on the Web, funded by the AHRB. Currently Reader in English Literature and Head of the Department of English at the University of Birmingham. Details ISBN 0198184107 ISBN-13 9780198184102 Title A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 Author Maureen Bell, Donald McKenzie Format Hardcover Year 2005 Pages 664 Publisher Oxford University Press GE_Item_ID:14977802; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. 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