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Was Michael Wigglesworth's Day of Doom really a bestseller? And why did an Indian gravesite contain a scrap of Psalm 98 in a medicine bundle buried with a young Pequot girl? In answering these and other questions, Amory writes broadly about the social and economic history of printing, bookselling and book ownership.
At the heart of his work is a determination to connect the materialities of printed books with the workings of the book trades and, in turn, with how printed books were put to use. This is a collection of great methodological importance for anyone interested in literature and history who wants to make those same connections.
Currently working on editions of the non-mathematical works of John Wallis Grammar, Logic and Tracts on music. Spain and their European contemporaries and counterparts; the editorial implications of the layout of text and music and the juxtaposition of text and music Parpulov, Georgi R. Amory and Hall , Suarez and Turner , Gross and Kelley , and Gillespie and Hadfield are collections of survey-summaries by notable scholars of what was known at the date of publication about the economics and mechanics of the book trade in different parts of the British Atlantic. America in English Fiction, — The relationship between print, manuscript and oral culture in the development of transatlantic social networks and literary communities. From a political and religious point of view, books were censored very early: Old and Middle English manuscripts, psalters.
Hall sets this work in context Univ of Pennsylvania Press Bolero Ozon. Bibliography and the Book Trades: Revisiting the Bay Psalm Book.
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