This book combines book history and literary criticism to explore how early modern books were richer things than previously imagined.

Books and Readers in Early Modern England examines readers, reading, and publication practices from the Renaissance to the Restoration. The essays draw on an ar

Uses the idea of the box in early modern England to develop a new direction in book history and material culture.

What was a book in early modern England? By combining book history, bibliography and literary criticism, Material Texts in Early Modern England explores how six

Virginia Woolf described fictions as 'grossly material things', rooted in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's hint as its starting poi