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A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
Mark Bland
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Description for A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 143 x 13. Weight in Grams: 406.
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
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 ... Read more
- Features illustrations that are carefully chosen for their unfamiliarity in order to keep the discussion fresh
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
248
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
405g
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781118492154
SKU
V9781118492154
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99-50
About Mark Bland
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
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