Barnard J., McKenzie D.F. (eds.) The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 4: 1557-1695

Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 885 p.This volume focuses on the time between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. Thirty-eight chapters reveal how printed texts interacted with oral and manuscript cultures during a period of religious divisions and civil war. They examine literary works and the developing mass market in almanacs, chapbooks and news. The business of print and the relationship of London to the provinces and the Continent is also explained.Introduction
Religious publishing in England 1557–1640
Religious publishing in England 1640–1695
Oral and scribal texts in early modern England
John Donne and the circulation of manuscripts
Music books
The Latin trade
Patronage and the printing of learned works for the author
University printing at Oxford and Cambridge
Editing the past classical and historical scholarship
Maps and Atlases
The literature of travel
Science and the book
Samuel Hartlib and the commonwealth of learning
Ownership private and public libraries
Monastic collections and their dispersal
Literature, the playhouse and the public
Milton
The Restoration poetic and dramatic canon
Non-conformist voices and books
Women writing and women written
The Bible trade
English law books and legal publishing
ABCs, almanacs, ballads, chapbooks, popular piety and textbooks
Books for daily life household, husbandry, behaviour
The creation of the periodical press 1620–1695
Beyond London: Production, Distribution, Reception
The economic context
French paper in English books
The old English letter foundries
Bookbinding
Mise-en-page, illustration, expressive form
Disruption and Restructuring: the Late Seventeenth-Century Book Trade
Scotland
The book in Ireland from the Tudor re-conquest to the battle of the Boyne
Wales
British books abroad the Continent
British books abroad the American colonies
The stationers and the printing acts at the end of the seventeenth century
Appendix 1 Statistical tables
Appendix 2 Survey of printing presses 1668
Appendix 3 Apprentices bound in the Stationers' Company and what became of them 1557–1700
AbbreviationsVolume I
Volume II
Volume III
Volume V
Volume VI