The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings....Pages 17-34
‘Pretious treasures made cheap’? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England....Pages 35-50
Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources That Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505....Pages 51-63
‘Lacking Ware, withal’: Finding Sir James Ware among the Many Incarnations of his Histories....Pages 64-81
Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: The Case of William St Clair and Copyright in Ireland....Pages 82-95
The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680–1800: Problems and Perils....Pages 96-117
Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-Century Secret Histories....Pages 118-133
Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitised Age....Pages 134-149
Nineteenth-Century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Translocal Migration and Print Skills Transfer....Pages 150-166
The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall’s Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera....Pages 167-181
The ‘Lesser’ Dürer? Text and Image in Early Modern Broadsheets....Pages 182-203
‘Fair Forms’ and ‘Withered Leaves’: The Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print....Pages 204-217
‘Print Culture’ and the Perils of Practice....Pages 218-237
Back Matter....Pages 238-242