This article about a nonfiction book on history of the united kingdom or its predecessor states is a stub. Trapp editors this volume presents a collection of essays with an overview of the centuryandahalf between the death of chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the stationers company in 1557. The cambridge history of the british empire was a major work of historical scholarship. The fifth volume, covering the long eighteenth century from 1695 to 1830, runs to nearly 900 pages of text. Ill, 14001557, cambridge, cambridge university press, 1999. This seventh and final volume surveys the twentieth and twentyfirst centuries from a range of perspectives in order to create a comprehensive guide, from growing professionalisation at. Mckenzie, with maureen bell edited by john barnard isbn. The cambridge history of the book in britain edited by john barnard november 2002. The cambridge history of the book in britain seeks to represent much of that variety. Pemberley natural history books specialist natural history booksellers providing a mail order service for individuals, museums, research institutes.
The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscriptmaking, and literary culture in britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the vindolanda writing tablets through the age of bede and alcuin to the time of the domesday book. Edited book the cambridge history of the book in britain. The editors invite book proposals from historians of all ranks on the ways in which. The history of the book in the united kingdom has been studied from a variety of cultural, economic, political, and social angles. The book as we know it today largely took shape in the later middle ages. This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in britain from roman through anglosaxon to early norman times.
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The cambridge history of the book in britain, volume 4. The most pressing of these is external, the unfortunate editorial decisions made in the previously published, yet successor volume iii of the series, covering 14001557. The cambridge history of the book in britain volume 1. Britains history, he says, is above all about continental europe. This volume focuses on the time between the incorporation of the stationers company in 1557 and the lapsing of the licensing act in 1695.
This second volume of the cambridge history of the book in britain chbb ii comprises twenty essays that address how, why, and for whom medieval manuscripts were made, focusing despite its title on the period c. Skip to main content accessibility help we use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. The cambridge history of the book in britain is one of the great scholarly enterprises of our time far from being a series of good essays on interesting topics, taken as a whole this book is not merely the best history of the book in nineteenthcentury britain which we have. The cambridge history of the book in britain, volume 1 book. Britain and the world martin farr springer palgrave macmillan. This is the first, and the only, comprehensive history of the book in england and wales from the norman conquest until c. The first to appear of a projected sevenvolume 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.
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The business of print and the relationship of london to the provinces and the continent is also explained. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of. Thirtyeight chapters reveal how printed texts interacted with oral and manuscript cultures during a period of religious divisions and civil war. The cambridge history of the book in britain is an authoritative series which surveys the history of publishing, bookselling, authorship and reading in britain.
Pdf the cambridge history of the book in britain, vol. Volume 4 of the cambridge history of the book in britain covers the years between the incorporation of the stationers company in 1557 and the lapsing of the licensing act in 1695. Age britain to the present day, in this fully revised and updated book. Welcome to pemberley books specialist natural history booksellers. Volume ii hereinafter cited as chb ii labors under certain immediate limitations. The cambridge history of the book in britain hardcover at. The cambridge economic history of modern britain volume 1. Book description the fullest account ever published of the nineteenthcentury revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings the cambridge history of the book in britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form. They examine literary works and the developing mass market in almanacs, chapbooks and news. The time has passed when the research of any one man could suffice for the varied work which a comprehensive history of the british empire demands, and it has been deemed essential in the present undertaking to follow the plan of the cambridge modern history and to invite the cooperation of many students who are specialists in different parts. Its bibliography details 2,000 books, articles, and databases. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration, examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between england, ireland, the celtic realms and the continent, discuss.