Readers' Memorials in Early Editions of Chaucer.
- Author / Editor
- Johnston, Hope.
Readers' Memorials in Early Editions of Chaucer.
- Published
- Studies in Bibliography 59 (2015): 45-70.
- Description
- Links books as physical objects with customized Chaucer editions. Reviews how owners of early Chaucer editions customized their copies by adding "memorial inscriptions, title-page embellishments, and portraits inserted as frontispieces." As a result of this individualization, book owners "sought to provide an overall characterization
of the books and their author."
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