Mark Bland

Gebundenes Buch

Guide Early Printed Books Manuscripts

Beschreibung

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. Focusing on documents from the late sixteenth and early mid-seventeenth century, the author explains the complex process of viewing documents as artefacts, showing readers how to describe documents properly and how to read their physical properties. This helpful Guide demonstrates how we are to use this information, together with an understanding of the processes of production and modification, as a tool for studying the transmission of literary documents. An invaluable resource illuminating the complex relationship between the material processes and the meanings of the written and printed word, A Guide to Early Printed Books and Manuscripts is essential reading for anyone interested in book history and textual scholarship.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9781405124126
• ISBN-10: 1405124121
• Artikelnr.: 23334147

Rezensionen

"But this book contains useful material for any librarianseeking good arguments when advocating for the usefulness of theircollection." (Chartered Institute of Library andInformation Professionals, 2012)

"Showing an extensive knowledge of the scholarship in hisfield he provides an objective assessment, often correcting falsereasoning and offering a sound explanation of the facts. For allthese reasons, I believe that Mark Bland's Guide would be ofhelp to anyone interested in the discipline." (European Review of History: Revue europeenned'histoire, 18 July 2012)"Bland's book takes its place in a grand tradition of scholarlyguides to analytical and descriptive bibliography ... Bland offersa clear and comprehensive guide to

bibliography, and it isappropriate that it is most likely to come into its own as part ofthe work of making meaning, wedged open beneath a researcher'selbow." (The Review of English Studies, 23 December 2011)

"This book is indeed a very practical, clear and valuable guideto books and manuscripts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. . . The book is well illustrated and Bland makes good use of theimages, especially in his exemplary discussion in Chapter Two abouthow to use watermark evidence." (Script and Print, 1 August2011)

"This book will equip students, perhaps encountering sixteenth-and seventeenth-century texts for the first time, in their earlyprinted or manuscript form (as distinct from modern editions), toapproach bibliographical description and analysis without fear orconfusion and, for those wishing to pursue the subject more widely,it will serve admirably as an introduction." (Routledge ABES,2011)"This is an absolutely essential book. We haveexcellent handbooks for English printed books and manuscripts, butno one book that takes us through every aspect of the making andcirculation of texts, from paper to binding to reading. Mark Blandmeets an urgent need."
--Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania