The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume III : 1400-1557

Author / Editor
Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds.

Title
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume III : 1400-1557

Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Physical Description
xxiv, 743 pp. : 63 b&w plates; 6 figs.

Description
Twenty-eight essays by various authors, arranged under three major headings: Technique and Trade, Collections and Ownership, and Reading and Use of Books. The last is subdivided into Books for Scholars, Professions, and The Lay Reader. References to Chaucer occur throughout, concentrated in two essays: "Gentlewomen's Reading" (pp. 526-40), by Carol M. Meale and Julia Boffey, and "Literary Texts" (pp. 555-75), by Julia Boffey and A. S. G. Edwards. Includes a general index and an index of manuscripts.

Contributor
Trapp, J. B., ed.
Meale, Carol M., and Julia Boffey.
Boffey, Julia, and A. S. G. Edwards.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.