Peirs Plouhman [sic] and the 'Formidable Array of Blackletter' in the Early Nineteenth Century

Author / Editor
Kelen, Sarah A.

Title
Peirs Plouhman [sic] and the 'Formidable Array of Blackletter' in the Early Nineteenth Century

Published
Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton, eds. Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press), pp. 47-67, 2001.

Description
Assesses factors in Thomas Dunham Whitaker's decision to print Piers Plowman in 1813 in blackletter type, even though Chaucer had been printed in roman type nearly one hundred years earlier (by Urry) and anthologists of medieval poetry such as Joseph Ritson used roman type.

Contributor
Gutjar, Paul C.,
Benton, Megan L.,ed.
ed.

Alternative Title
Illuminating Letters: Typography and Literary Interpretation. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.

Chaucer Subjects
Facsimiles, Editions, and Translations.