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A work devoted primarily to the story of the construction and maintenance of what was for centuries London's only bridge might seem an odd title to draw to the attention of readers of The Library. The houses referred to in the title were an integral part of the bridge, providing rental income essential to finance repairs to the bridge. The 'ground' floors of these houses were shops, some of which sold books. The high numbers of travellers to and from London made shops on the bridge highly prized, with visiting chapmen and country shopkeepers a major market. In his short but detailed section on booksellers in the eighth chapter of this book Dorian Gerhold provides an interesting account of several booksellers who traded above the raging waters of the River Thames. The first to be precisely identified is Thomas Gosson, who had a shop near St Pauls from 1579 but who found it expedient to take another shop on the bridge in 1595 which remained within his family until 1654. Later, between 1667 and 1678 and from 1679 to 1700 the same premises were used by two other booksellers, Thomas Parkhurst and Joseph Collier, respectively. While the sellers on the bridge tended to specialize in chapbooks, ballads, and other small books, some such as Parkhurst, a Master of the Stationers' Company in 1703, also produced more substantial theological works. The trade on the bridge peaked between 1710 and 1712 when there were no fewer than twelve booksellers (including those of music) on the bridge.
East Kilbride Robert Laurie
Includes: Drew B. Thomas, 'Circumventing Censorship: The Rise and Fall of Reformation Print Centres'; Martine Furno, 'A Weapon for Freedom of Speech and Thought: Printing the Censurae of the Sorbonne, 1500–1550'; Edoardo Barbieri, 'The Bible in Contention: Roman Prohibitions and Italian Biblical Texts for the Mass'; Andrew Pettegree, 'A Whole New World? Publishing in the Dutch Golden Age'; Arthur der Weduwen, 'Fear and Loathing in Weesp: Personal and Political Networks in the Dutch Print World'; Cara Janssen, 'Almanac Production and the Antwerp Printing Community, 1588–1621'; Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo and Alba de la Cruz Redondo, 'Women and Conflict in the Iberian Book Trade, 1472–1700'; Rachel Stenner, 'Debating Print in English Prefatory Dialogue'; Klára Andresová, 'Military Camps in Military Manuals'; Sara Barker, 'Translating Treason: Printed Accounts of Conspiracies against Henri IV in France and England'; Alexander S. Wilkinson, 'Sustaining a City under Siege: Paris versus Henri de Navarre (7 May – 30 August 1590)'; Marc W. S. Jaffré, 'A Household Affair: Henri IV's Royal Printers, 1589–1595'; Edwin Andrew Goi, 'Pamphleteering and Honour in Early Modern France: The Wars of the Mother and Son, 1619–1620'; Helmer Helmers, 'Foreign [End Page 135] News in Times of Domestic Crisis: The Truce Conflicts, the Thirty Years' War and the Rise of the Dutch Newspaper'; Robert von Friedeburg, 'Defending the Fatherland Against the Butcher Prince: The "Nationalisation" of the Legal Environment of Conflict'.
Cambridge Nicolas Bell
This volume celebrates the prodigious scholarly achievement of Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys, who, between them, have transformed understanding of Byzantine literary culture and its reception from Late Antiquity until the Early Modern period. The theme of the volume is not just 'the basic activity of close reading', but also 'the fundamental question of where a work of literature finds its meaning' (p. 41). The work opens with a magisterial introduction by Teresa...
