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Volume II: 1671-1685
Donald McKenzie, Maureen Bell
£152.00
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Volume III: 1686-1700; Indexes
Donald McKenzie, Maureen Bell
£152.00
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A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700
Volume I: 1641-1670
Donald McKenzie and Maureen Bell
664 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-818410-2
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Hardback
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15 December 2005
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This item is printed to order. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.
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- Brings together for the first time a wealth of references from a range of manuscript and printed sources, some of them not previously readily accessible to scholars in the field
- Extends the documentary work of Arber, Greg, and Jackson into the second half of the seventeenth century
- Provides a preliminary narrative of the book trade in the period
- Marks the culmination of Donald McKenzie's vision
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 in major 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 contemporary
pamphlets.
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 also for 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 make accessible 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 the social, political, and economic contexts of the book trade, its personnel, and its printed output.Readership: Libraries will be asked to buy it by literature specialists, book historians and print culture and by economic and social historians of the period. Librarians themselves will welcome it as a reference tool to help them
with readers' enquiries. Libraries outside the UK whose users have no direct access to manuscripts in London archives will find it invaluable.
The volumes will not remove the need for serious researchers to see the original documents which lie behind the abstracts, but the abstracts are quite full and will provide a key resource for anyone distant from UK archives such as Stationers' Hall and the Public Record Office. Scholars abroad will be able to use the volumes both for their information content and to find the level of referencing which will enable them to assess resources in archives before planning research trips.
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Donald McKenzie, Formerly Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism, Oxford University, and Maureen Bell, Reader in English Literature and Head of English Department, University of Birmingham
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"...we should celebrate the names of McKenzie and Bell for their Herculean endeavours in the service of bibliographical scholarship." - Ian Gadd, Journal of Printing Historical Society "They are immensely practical, and attractively printed. The amount of labour they conceal is astonishing. Maureen Bell has done a tremendous public service in producing them." - Joad Raymond, The Times Literary Supplement "It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this book; all of those involved in it, but particularly Maureen Bell who brought so great a project to completion, deserve our gratitude and our admiration." - John Feather, Sharp News "No-one whose work involves books
printed and published in Britain between 1640 and 1700 can afford to neglect these volumes." - David McKetterick, The Book Collector "These three valuable volumes are a synthesis of projects independently conceived and undertaken by Maureen Bell and the late Don McKenzie between two and three decades ago, and now completed by Bell. They offer a digest of all the references to the book trade and its workers in some of the key printed records for seventeenth-century bibliographical history... They will certainly save researchers a great deal of time and open up new leads. Maureen Bell has done a tremendous public service in producing them." - Joad Raymond, Times Literary Supplement
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Volume I (this volume)
Introduction
Bibliographical Note
Editorial Conventions
Calendar and Chronology 1641-1670
Volume II (also available)
Calendar and Chronology 1671-1685
Volume III (also available)
Calendar and Chronology 1686-1700
Name Index
Title Index
Topic Index
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