Publishing, Politics, and Culture: The King's Printers in the Reign of James I and VI

by Maria Wakely and Graham Charles Rees

Based on hitherto unexplored and unpublished legal and business records, this study presents the fullest account so far published of any London printing firm in the reign of James I. In particular it examines the businesses of men associated with that crucial instrument of cultural production-the King's Printing House. This institution stood four-square at the top of the London printing and publishing trade, for it monopolized the right to print the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199576319
• ISBN13: 9780199576319
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"