The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction

   • Jason McElligott, Eve Patten

   Pages 1-16

3. The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings

   • Leslie Howsam

   Pages 17-34

4. ‘Pretious treasures made cheap’? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England

   • Freyja Cox Jensen

   Pages 35-50

5. Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources That Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505

   • Matthew Cheung Salisbury

   Pages 51-63

6. ‘Lacking Ware, withal’: Finding Sir James Ware among the Many Incarnations of his Histories

   • Mark Williams

   Pages 64-81

7. Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: The Case of William St Clair and Copyright in Ireland

   • Sarah Crider Arndt

   Pages 82-95

8. The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680–1800: Problems and Perils

   • Toby Barnard

   Pages 96-117

9. Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-Century Secret Histories

   • Rebecca Bullard

   Pages 118-133

10. Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitised Age

    • Margery Masterson

    Pages 134-149

11. Nineteenth-Century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Translocal Migration and Print Skills Transfer

    • David Finkelstein

    Pages 150-166

12. The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall’s Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera

    • Annette Walton

    Pages 167-181

13. The ‘Lesser’ Dürer? Text and Image in Early Modern Broadsheets

    • Cristina Neagu

    Pages 182-203

14. ‘Fair Forms’ and ‘Withered Leaves’: The Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print

    • Anna Luker Gilding

    Pages 204-217

15. ‘Print Culture’ and the Perils of Practice

    • James Raven

    Pages 218-237

16. Back Matter

    Pages 238-242

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This collection of essays illustrates various pressures and concerns—both practical and theoretical—related to the study of print culture. Procedural difficulties range from doubts about the reliability of digitized resources to concerns with the limiting parameters of 'national' book history.

• culture
• methods
• migration
• novel
• seventeenth century
• Victorian era
• British and Irish Literature

“This volume is forward-facing in its assessment of various ‘perils’ in print culture … .  The volume is a good starting point for students of book history and print culture. Equally, it is useful for established scholars who wish to remind themselves of the sorts of topical questions being asked in this field of enquiry.” (Natalie C. J. Aldred, SHARP News, sharpweb.org, August, 2016)

• Marsh’s Library, Dublin, Ireland

  Jason McElligott

• School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

  Eve Patten

Toby Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford, UK Rebecca Bullard, University of Reading, UK Matthew Cheung Salisbury, University College, Oxford, UK Freyja Cox Jensen, University of Exeter, UK Sarah Crider Arndt, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland David Finkelstein, University of Dundee, UK Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor, Canada Anna Luker Gilding, independent scholar, UK Margery Masterson, University of Bristol, UK Cristina Neagu, Christ Church Library, Oxford, UK James Raven, University of Essex, UK Annette Walton, Linacre College, Oxford, UK

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