Recent Books
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The first part contains descriptions of a collection of 171 works printed between 1501 and 1600 in three sections: Letter collections by single authors and anthologies; Letter-writing manuals; Model letter collections, fictitious letter collections and some letter collections by 15th-century authors (mostly schoolbook editions printed in the 16th century). The third section is completed by a full index of authors, editors, senders, recipients, places, and names. The second (bibliographical) part contains finding lists of all epistolaries and letter writing manuals published in the sixteenth century, as well as a comprehensive, up-to-date list of secondary sources also with a detailed index.
Although imposition manuals have always been useful tools of the printing trade, surviving examples are rare. The present volume reproduces a unique manuscript in the collection of the Grolier Club Library in New York. Compiled in the years 1794–95 by the Antwerp printer Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen, the manuscript illustrates, through a series of diagrams in ink and watercolour, the correct position of composed pages, arranged so that they would appear in the correct order after having been printed and folded. There is also a detailed introduction and notes by Frans Janssen and English translations of the table of contents, headings, and text of the manual.
Includes: J. A. Burrow, ‘Winning and Wasting in Wynnere and Wastoure and Piers Plowman’; Alfred Hiatt, ‘The Reference Work in the Fifteenth Century: John Whethamstede’s Granarium’; Martha Driver, ‘Pageants Reconsidered’; Orietta Da Rold, ‘Codicology, Localization and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108’; Susanna Fein, ‘The Fillers of the Auchinleck Manuscript and the Literary Culture of the West Midlands’; Nicolas Barker, ‘Tanner 190 Revisited’; Lotte Hellinga, ‘From Poggio to Caxton: Early Translations of some of Poggio’s Latin Facetiae’; A. I. Doyle, ‘The Two Issues of More’s Book against Luther’; John Scattergood, ‘Trinity College MS 516: A Clerical Historian’s Personal Miscellany’; Carol M. Meale, ‘Katherine de la Pole and East Anglian Manuscript Production in the Fifteenth Century: An Unrecognized Patron?’; Kathleen L. Scott, ‘Past Ownership: Evidence of Book Ownership by English Merchants in the Later Middle Ages’; Toshiyuki Takamiya and Richard Linenthal, ‘Early Printed Continental Books owned in England: Some Examples in the Takamiya Collection’; John L. Thompson, ‘Love in the 1530s’; Jane Griffiths, ‘Editorial Glossing and Reader Resistance in a Copy of Robert Crowley’s [End Page 104] Piers Plowman’; Simon Horobin, ‘Beaupré Bell and the Editing of Chaucer in the Eighteenth Century’.
Includes: Joshua Eckhardt and Daniel Starza Smith, ‘Introduction: The Emergence of the English Miscellany’; Daniel Starza Smith, ‘Before (and after) the Miscellany: Reconstructing Donne’s Satyres in the Conway Papers’; Piers Brown, ‘Donne, Rhapsody, and Textual Order’; James Daybell, ‘Early Modern Letter-Books, Miscellanies, and the Reading and Reception of Scribally Copied Letters’; Noah Millstons, ‘The Rector of Santon Downham and the Hieroglyphical Watch of Prague’; Helen Hackett, ‘Unlocking the Mysteries of Constance Aston Fowler’s Verse Miscellany (Huntington Library MS HM 904): The Hand B Scribe Identified’; Cedric C. Brown, ‘William Smith, Vere Southerne, Jesuit Missioner, and Three Linked Manuscript Miscellanies’; Lara M. Crowley, ‘Attribution and Anonymity: Donne, Ralegh, and Fletcher in British Library, Stowe...
