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alternatives to print in early modern England
antiquarian manuscripts
Author_Harold Love
authors avoiding print stigma
authorship and manuscript circulation
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Category=KNTR
Category=WCS
censorship and text dissemination
circulation of rare texts
distribution channels for manuscripts
early modern English literature
early modern information exchange
early modern publishing practices
early modern textual economies
ephemeral literature in hand copy
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handwritten publication practices
handwritten versus printed media
history of manuscript networks
intellectual culture in seventeenth-century England
literary and musical scribal networks
literary preservation in manuscript form
literary sociology of handwritten texts
manuscript as medium of authority
manuscript as private intellectual property
manuscript book history
manuscript collecting and circulation
manuscript copying for limited audiences
manuscript copying techniques
manuscript dissemination of controversial works
manuscript music transmission
manuscript production agencies
manuscript production and duplication
manuscript versus print trade
non-print literary culture
philosophical works in private circulation
political texts in manuscript form
private circulation of distinguished works
scholarly study of preprint culture
scientific writings before print
scribal circulation of poetry
scribal culture and patronage
scribal transmission of knowledge
seventeenth-century manuscript culture
small-scale text distribution
textual transmission and readership
trade in manuscripts
Product details
- ISBN 9781558491342
- Weight: 575g
- Dimensions: 151 x 227mm
- Publication Date: 09 Mar 1998
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Long after the establishment of printing in England, many writers and composers still prefered to publish their work through handwritten copies. Although censorship was one reason for this persistance of the older practice, scribal publication remained the norm for texts that were required only in small numbers, or whose authors wished to avoid the ""stigma"" of print. This text considers the trade in manuscripts as an important supplement to the trade in printed books and describes the agencies that met the need for rapid duplication of key texts.
