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1	Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830 more books like this by David McKitterick This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested. From the 1450s onwards, the printed word and ... see all copies from $27.62! new only from $27.62! \| SVS
2	Fiction and the American Literary Marketplace: The Role of Newspaper Syndicates in America, 1860-1900 more books like this by Charles Alan Johanningsmeier, Terry Belanger (Editor), David McKitterick (Editor) Conventional literary history has virtually ignored the role of newspaper syndicates in publishing some of the most famous nineteenth-century writers. Stephen Crane, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain were among those who offered their early fiction to 'Syndicates', firms which subsequently sold the work to ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $38.55! \| first editions \| SVS
3	New Cambridge Medieval History V6 more books like this by Michael Jones (Editor), David Abulafia (Editor), Rosamond McKitterick (Editor) The sixth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers the fourteenth century, a period dominated by plague, other natural disasters and war which brought to an end three centuries of economic growth and cultural expansion in Christian Europe, but one which also saw important developments in government, religious and intellectual life, and ... see all copies from $130.00! new only from $184.67! \| SVS
4	American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields more books like this by Michael Winship, Terry Belanger (Editor), David McKitterick (Editor) This is a study of some of the central questions in literary publishing in mid-nineteenth-century North America and Britain, addressed through examination of the unusually rich archives of a unique publishing firm. Boston-based Ticknor and Fields, one of the pre-eminent literary publishers of its time, enjoyed close links with Britain, and also ... see all copies from $48.02! new only from $48.02! \| SVS
5	The Making of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge: From the 17th to the 19th Century more books like this by David McKitterick (Editor) The Library at Trinity College, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and completed in 1695, is known all over the world for its books, its architecture, and its sculpture. Each of these aspects is authoritatively examined in this volume, as David McKitterick, Howard Colvin, and Malcolm Baker explore the ways in which seventeenth-century ideas were ... see all copies from $65.00! new only from $85.69!
6	New Cambridge Medieval History V2 more books like this by Rosamond McKitterick (Editor), David Abulafia (Editor), Martin Brett (Editor) This volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History covers most of the period of Frankish and Carolingian dominance in western Europe. It was one of remarkable political and cultural coherence, combined with crucial, very diverse and formative developments in every sphere of life. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the authors consider ... see all copies from $120.00! new only from $184.67! \| first editions
7	History of Camb University Press V2 more books like this by David McKitterick This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental changes in printing, publishing, and bookselling. The purpose of this book is not only to chronicle the history of the Press, but also to set it in this context of change: to examine how the forces of commerce collided with the hopes or demands of ... see all copies from $134.92! new only from $163.76!
8	Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 more books like this by Brian Richardson, Terry Belanger (Editor), David McKitterick (Editor) The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory material or commentary. Brian Richardson here examines the ... see all copies from $37.93! new only from $37.93! \| SVS
9	New Cambridge Medieval History V7 more books like this by Christopher Allmand (Editor), David Abulafia (Editor), Rosamond McKitterick (Editor) This volume covers the last century (interpreted broadly) of the traditional western Middle Ages. Often seen as a time of doubt, decline and division, the period is shown here as a period of considerable innovation and development, much of which resulted from a conscious attempt by contemporaries to meet the growing demands of society and to find ... see all copies from $140.85! new only from $184.67!
10	History of Camb University Press V1 more books like this by David McKitterick This is the first of three volumes concerning the history of the oldest press in the world, a history that extends from the sixteenth century to the present day. Although there was, briefly, a press at Cambridge in the early 1520s, the origins of the modern University Press spring from a charter granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534, to ... see all copies from $65.80! new only from $163.76! \| first editions
11	The Nervous Peace more books like this by David McKitterick Since the IRA and Loyalist ceasefires, Northern Ireland has changed utterly - troops no longer patrol the streets, tourism is booming and President Clinton's historic visit provided the first real celebration of the peace. But Nationalists now feel their high hopes are being dashed, while Unionists remain fearful of a united Ireland. What are the ... see all copies from $4.02! SVS
12	Four Hundred Years of University Printing and Publishing in Cambridge,15841984: Catalogue of the Exhibition of the University Library, Cambridge more books like this by David McKitterick An important exhibition was mounted in the University Library from April to June 1984, to mark the four hundredth anniversary of University printing and publishing in Cambridge, and this catalogue gives a permanent record for historians and bibliographers. Mr McKitterick has written introductory notes to the catalogue as a whole and his full ... see all copies from $23.75! first editions
13 view cover	A History of Cambridge University Press 3 Volume Set more books like this by David McKitterick This is a definitive history of Cambridge University Press, the oldest press in the world. The origins of the modern University Press sprang from the charter granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534, to provide for printers who would be able to work outside London and serve the University, and these volumes chart the history of the Press ... see all copies from $360.34! new only from $360.34!
14 view cover	History of Camb University Press V3 more books like this by David McKitterick This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, building up its educational and academic lists. It charts how interests in America were advanced, how subjects were extended and the Press ... see all copies from $61.26! new only from $63.86!
15 view cover	Print Culture in Renaissance Italy more books like this by Brian Richardson, Terry Belanger (Editor), David McKitterick (Editor) The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could strongly influence the interpretation and status of texts by adding introductory material or commentary. Brian Richardson here examines the ... see all copies from $65.85! new only from $87.87! \| SVS
16	Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge VII: Facsimile of Pepys's Catalogue, Parts I and II more books like this by Pepys Library, Robert Latham, David McKitterick (Introduction by) The arrangement of Samuel Pepys's library was a matter of great concern to him, from the commissioning of the special glazed book presses in which it is still housed to the positioning of volumes by size, with blocks cut to make the volumes level. In the early 1690s he arranged for a catalogue to be compiled. This consists of the usual listing in ... see all copies from $65.00! SVS
17 view cover	The Trinity Apocalypse (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R.16.2) more books like this by David McKitterick The text of the Book of Revelation is accompanied by a commentary and by a series of illustrations that depict the dream of John in detail. This volume considers its background, illustration, palaeography, texts, language and history. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the whole text, with an English translation. see all copies from $97.64! new only from $97.64!
18	Selected correspondence. by Stanley Morison, D.B. Updike, David McKitterick see all copies from $19.21!
19 view cover	New Cambridge Medieval History V3 more books like this by Professor Timothy Reuter (Editor), David Abulafia (Editor), Rosamond McKitterick (Editor) The period of the tenth and early eleventh centuries was crucial in the formation of Europe, much of whose political geography and larger-scale divisions began to take shape at this time. It was also an era of great fragmentation, and hence of differences which have been magnified by modern national historiographical traditions. This volume of The ... see all copies from $204.35! new only from $204.35!
20	The History of Books and Libraries: Two Views more books like this by John Feather see all copies from $12.00! first editions
21 view cover	New Cambridge Medieval History V5 more books like this by David Abulafia (Editor), Rosamond McKitterick (Editor), Martin Brett (Editor) The fifth volume of The New Cambridge Medieval History brings together studies of the political, religious, social and economic history of the whole of Europe and of the Mediterranean world between about 1198 and 1300. Comprehensive coverage of the developments in western Europe is balanced by attention to the east of Europe, including the ... see all copies from $184.67! new only from $184.67! \| SVS
22	Andrew Perne : quatercentenary studies more books like this by Patrick Collinson, David McKitterick, E. S. Leedham-Green see all copies from $30.00!
23	Selected Essays on the History of Letterforms in Manuscript and Print more books like this by David McKitterick (Editor), Stanley Morison see all copies from $500.00!
24	The Sandars and Lyell lectures : a checklist with an introduction more books like this by David McKitterick see all copies from $18.40! first editions
25	Aspects of French eighteenth century typography : a study of type specimens in the Broxbourne Collection at Cambridge University Library more books like this by John Dreyfus, David McKitterick see all copies from $258.75! first editions

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