Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England

by William H. Sherman

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812220846
• ISBN13: 9780812220841
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"