Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475

Author / Editor
Griffiths, Jeremy, and Derek Pearsall, eds.

Title
Book Production and Publishing in Britain, 1375-1475

Published
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Physical Description
xix, 463 pp.

Series
Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History.

Description
Fifteen original essays on such topics as early book design, book purchasing and ownership, Caxton, and production of various kinds of books. Includes C. Paul Christianson on "Evidence for the Study of London's Late Medieval Manuscript-Book Trade," (pp. 87-108), and "The Manuscripts of the Major English Poetic Texts," by A. S. G. Edwards and Pearsall, with a statistical appendix (pp. 257-78).

Contributor
Pearsall, Derek.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.