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Used Books

Marking Readers in Renaissance England

Szerző: William H. Sherman

Nyelv:

Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: University of Pennsylvania Press

Elérhetőség: Beszállítói készleten

Küldés 9-13 napon belül

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In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume...

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Szerző

William H. Sherman

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2007

oldal

288

EAN

9780812240436

ISBN

081224043X

Enbook ID

04724096

Kiadó

University of Pennsylvania Press

Súly

594

Méretek

238 x 163 x 30

Teljes leírás

In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition. William H. Sherman recovers a culture that took the phrase "mark my words" quite literally. Books from the first two centuries of printing are full of marginalia and other signs of engagement and use, such as customized bindings, traces of food and drink, penmanship exercises, and doodles. These marks offer a vast archive of information about the lives of books and their place in the lives of their readers. Based on a survey of thousands of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics. The chapters address the place of book-marking in schools and churches, the use of the "manicule" (the ubiquitous hand-with-pointing-finger symbol), the role played by women in information management, the extraordinary commonplace book used for nearly sixty years by Renaissance England's greatest lawyer-statesman, and the attitudes toward annotated books among collectors and librarians from the Middle Ages to the present. This wide-ranging, learned, and often surprising book will make the marks of Renaissance readers more visible and legible to scholars, collectors, and bibliophiles.