English humanist books : writers and patrons, manuscript and print, 1475-1525 / David R. Carlson
Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1993. First Edition. Fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #289246
ISBN: 080207796X
Physical description; x, 275 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263). Contents; 1. Filippo Alberici, Cebes' Tablet, and Henry VII -- 2. Politicking and Manuscript Presentation: Pietro Carmeliano's Development of Publishing Methods (1482-86) -- 3. Authorial Self-Fashioning: Collected Works, in Manuscript and Print, in Bernard Andre's Later Career, (1509-17) -- 4. Authorial Parsimony: The Circulation of Some Poems of Erasmus, (c. 1495-1518) -- 5. Printed and Manuscript Reduplication of the Same Piece of Writing: Robert Whittinton's Printed Opusculum of 1519 and a Manuscript for Cardinal Wolsey -- 6. Printers' Needs: Wynkyn de Worde's Piracy of William Lily's Epigrammata in 1522 -- 7. Formal Translation: Thomas More's Epigrams before and after 1518. Subjects; ooks England History (1450-1600). Literary patrons Great Britain. Humanists England. Authors and patrons. Authors and publishers. Books. Early printed books. Humanists. Intellectual life. Latin literature, Medieval and modern. Literary patrons. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern). Printing. Printing Origin and antecedents. Humanisten. Boekdrukkunst. Printing history. Books history. Manuscripts as Topic history. Literature, Medieval. Humanism history. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) England History. Books England History (1400-1600). Humanism England History 15th century. Humanism England History 16th century. Transmission of texts. Printing England History Origin. Printing history. Books history. Manuscripts as Topic history. Literature, Medieval. Humanism history. Humanism Great Britain. Books Great Britain History (1450-1600). Humanism England History 15th century. Humanism England History 16th century. Humanism England. Latin literature, Medieval and modern England History and criticism. Great Britain Intellectual life (1066-1485). England intellectual life medieval period. Books History. Book, the British Isles 16th century. Book, the British Isles Medieval. Humanism. England Literature 15th century. England Literature 16th century. Genres; Bibliographies. Bibliography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History. Illustrated.
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