The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume III : 1400-1557
- Author / Editor
- Hellinga, Lotte, and J. B. Trapp, eds.
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.