Astrology and the Popular Press

by Bernard S. Capp

Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. At their zenith in the later seventeenth century, they sold at a rate of 400,000 copies a year. They were read by many people who read little else, and the works of Shakespeare and Jonson, among others, have numerous references to them. Professor Capp's fascinating book (Faber, 1979) is the first to study their history in depth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571241913
• ISBN13: 9780571241910
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"