Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640
Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640

Author: Tessa Watt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780521458276

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This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.

Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640
Printers' & Publishers' Devices in England & Scotland, 1485-1640

Author: Ronald B (Ronald Brunlees) McKerrow

Publisher: Hassell Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019351369

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This book is a comprehensive guide to the history of printing in England and Scotland during the 16th and 17th centuries. It includes detailed information on printers, publishers, and printing devices, as well as historical information on the broader context in which printing took place. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561
The Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561

Author: Peter W. M. Blayney

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-01-13

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1108945139

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Bibliographers have been notoriously 'hesitant to deal with liturgies', and this volume bridges an important gap with its authoritative examination of how the Book of Common Prayer came into being. The first edition of 1549, the first Grafton edition of 1552 and the first quarto edition of 1559 are now correctly identified, while Peter W. M. Blayney shows that the first two editions of 1559 were probably finished on the same day. Through relentless scrutiny of the evidence, he reveals that the contents of the 1549 version continued to evolve both during and after the printing of the first edition, and that changes were still being made to the Elizabethan revision weeks after the Act of Uniformity was passed. His bold reconstruction is transformative for the early Anglican liturgy, and thus for the wider history of the Church of England. This major, revisionist work is a remarkable book about a remarkable book.

Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England
Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England

Author: Jeremy L. Smith

Publisher: Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0195139054

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"In Thomas East and Music Publishing in Renaissance England, Jeremy Smith not only tells the story of this influential player in early English music publishing, but also offers a vivid portrait of a bustling and competitive industry, in which composers, patrons, publishers, and tradesmen sparred for creative control and financial success. From this lively market, beset as it was by monopolies and lawsuits, a prototype of today's copyright system emerged."--Jacket.

The English Print Trade in the Reign of Edward VI, 1547–1553
The English Print Trade in the Reign of Edward VI, 1547–1553

Author: Celyn David Richards

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-06-26

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 9004510176

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The protestant reformation was critical to the efflorescence of printing in England between 1547 and 1553. Celyn David Richards explores English print culture during this turbulent period, in which an official programme of reform, new censorship dynamics and increasingly sophisticated commercial relationships contributed to the trade’s rapid expansion. Edward VI’s reign saw unprecedented levels of religious print production, London’s first publishing syndicate, and a climate of protestant ascendancy which helped English print culture to make up ground on its continental counterparts.

Reading Drama in Tudor England
Reading Drama in Tudor England

Author: Tamara Atkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 441

ISBN-13: 1317079892

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Reading Drama in Tudor England is about the print invention of drama as a category of text designed for readerly consumption. Arguing that plays were made legible by the printed paratexts that accompanied them, it shows that by the middle of the sixteenth century it was possible to market a play for leisure-time reading. Offering a detailed analysis of such features as title-pages, character lists, and other paratextual front matter, it suggests that even before the establishment of successful permanent playhouses, playbooks adopted recognisable conventions that not only announced their categorical status and genre but also suggested appropriate forms of use. As well as a survey of implied reading practices, this study is also about the historical owners and readers of plays. Examining the marks of use that survive in copies of early printed plays, it explores the habits of compilation and annotation that reflect the striking and often unpredictable uses to which early owners subjected their playbooks.