First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.

Explores how the earliest printers moulded demand and created new markets and argues that marketing changed what was read and the place of reading in sixteenth-

Bringing together a broad range of case studies written bya team of international scholars, this Concise Companionestablishes how manuscripts and printed books

The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English, 1540-1700 brings together new work by scholars across the globe, from some of the founding figur

In 1484, William Caxton, the first publisher of English-language books, issued The Golden Legend, a translation of the most well-known collection of saints’ l