Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Material Texts)

by William H. Sherman

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In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand [that] bring to life an early and earnest owner"; and the book's buyer, for his part, considered it to be "enlivened by the marginal notes and comments." For this collector, as for an increasing number of cultural historians and historians of the book, a marked-up copy was more interesting than one in pristine condition.
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  • ISBN10 081224043X
  • ISBN13 9780812240436
  • Publish Date 12 December 2007
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Language English