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Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350–1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption. Ed. by Emma Cayley and Susan Powell. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2013. xviii + 327 pp. £70. isbn 978 0 85989 870 6.

This volume is a result of the Eleventh Biennial Early Book Society conference, held at the University of Exeter in July 2009. The papers are divided into three sections: Packaging and Presentation: The Materiality of the Manuscript and Printed Book; Consumers: Producers, Owners, and Readers; Consuming the Text: Writing Consumption. Includes: A. M. Lane, ‘How can we Recognise “Contemporary” Book-bindings of the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Centuries?’; M. Peikola, ‘Guidelines for Consumption: Scribal Ruling Patterns and Designing the mise-en-page in Later Medieval England’; S. Drimmer, ‘Picturing the King or Picturing the Saint: Two Miniature Programmes for John Lydgate’s Lives of SS Edmund and Fremund’; Y. Rode: ‘Sixty-three Gallons of Books: Shipping Books to London in the Late Middle Ages’; A. Sutton, ‘The Acquisition and Disposal of Books for Worship and Pleasure by Mercers of London in the Later Middle Ages’; M. Driver: ‘“By Me Elysabeth Pykeryng”: Women and Printing in the Early Tudor Period’; S. Husbands, ‘The Roxburghe Club: Consumption, Obsession and the Passion for Print’; C. Griffin, ‘Reconsidering the Recipe: Materiality, Narrative and Text in Later Medieval Instructional MSS and Collections’; A. Gellert, ‘Fools, “Folye” and Caxton’s Woodcut of the Pilgrims at Table’.

L’Écriture Éditoriale à la Renaissance: Genèse et Promotion du Récit Sentimental Français (1530–1560). By Anne Réach-N. (Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance, dxviii.) Geneva: Librarie Droz. 2013. 508 pp. €82.46. isbn 978 2 600 01605 6.

Study of French vernacular prose narratives in the sixteenth century arguing that the editorial choices of printers and publishers influenced the development of a new genre — the French sentimental story. Looks in detail at the Angoisses douloureuses, first published in 1538, and the influence of editions printed by Denis Janot in Paris and Denis de Harsy in Lyons.

The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation. Ed. by Carrie Smith and Lisa Stead. Farnham: Ashgate, 2013. 210 pp. £55. isbn 978 1 4094 4322 3.

Includes: W. Van Mierlo, ‘The Archaeology of the Manuscript: Towards Modern Palaeography’; J. Douglas, ‘Original Order, Added Value? Archival Theory and the Douglas Coupland Fonds’; I. Cosgrave, ‘Untrustworthy Reproductions and Doctored Archives: Undoing the Sins of a Victorian Biographer’; F. Baker, ‘The Double Life of “The Ghost in the Garden Room”: Charles Dickens Edits Elizabeth Gaskell’; J. Dowson, ‘Poetry and Personality: The Private Papers and Public Image of Elizabeth Jennings’; C. Smith, ‘Illustration and Ekphrasis: The Working Drafts of Ted Hughes’s Cave Birds’; L. Stead, ‘Letter Writing, Cinemagoing and Archive Ephemera’; S. Hodson, ‘To Reveal or Conceal: Privacy and Confidentiality in the Papers of Contemporary Authors’; K. V. Kukil, ‘Teaching the Material Archive at Smith College’; H. Taylor, ‘“What will survive of us are manuscripts”: Archives, Scholarship and Human Stories’.

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Die Welt des Baedeker: Eine Medienkulturgeschichte des Reiseführers 1830–1945. By Susanne Müller. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. 2012. 354 pp. + 47 illus. €29.90. isbn 978 3 59 339615 6.

A study of the ‘classical period’ of the famous Baedeker travel guides, from their first appearance in the wake of the Enlightenment, at a time that saw a great expansion of travel by steamship and rail, to the mid-twentieth century, when mass travel changed the nature of tourism, and the Baedekers’ reputation was tarnished by the allegation that they had been used to guide Second World War bombers to important cultural targets.

Friedrich der Große als Leser. Ed by Brunhilde Wehinger and Günther Lottes. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag. 2012. 231 pp. €69.80. isbn 978 3 05 004922 9.

A stimulating collection of essays examining how Frederick the Great, King in Prussia from 1740 to 1786, engaged with contemporary issues in Enlightenment debate. By showing how his reading of French works on philosophy, history and literature is reflected in his own extensive writings and correspondence on these...

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