Early Modern Manuscript and Printed Book Studies

Description:

"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." --Book Jacket.

subjects: Critical Bibliography,  Early printed books,  Bibliography,  Methodology,  European Manuscripts,  History,  Codicology,  Transmission of texts,  Manuscripts