A Chronology and Calendar of Documents Relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700: Volume II: 1671-1685 - Hardcover

McKenzie, D. F.; Bell, Maureen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198181760 ISBN 13: 9780198181767

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

The Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700 provides, for the first time, easy access to information about the authors, printers, and distributors of books in the later seventeenth century. Chronological entries allow an insight into the day-to-day workings of the book trade. Substantial indexes allow quick reference to information on specific book titles, named authors, and book trade personnel, and specific topics such as booksellers' bills, coffee-houses, and imported books.

About this title

About the Author:

D.F. McKenzie was the leading bibliographer of his generation, and his Panizzi Lectures on 'Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts' revolutionized Anglo-American approaches to bibliography and the history of the book. He was a most stimulating and influential teacher: at the Victoria
University of Wellington, where he was Professor of English Language and Literature 1969-87, and in Oxford, as Lyell Reader in Bibliography and as Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism. He was the driving force in the planning of the multi-volume iCambridge History of the Book in
Britain/i, in progress, and his major edition of Congreve, close to completion at his death, is being seen through its final stages by Christine Ferdinand (married to McKenzie in 1994) and is shortly to be published by Oxford University Press. The McKenzie Trust was established after his death to
promote excellence in teaching and research and there is an annual McKenzie Lecture in Oxford in June. Maureen Bell was formerly a schoolteacher and librarian, and met McKenzie for the first time in 1987 when he acted as external examiner for her PhD thesis on women in the seventeenth-century book
trade. As Leverhulme Fellow at the Institute of Bibliography, University of Leeds (1990-2) she worked on the quantification of English printing 1475-1700 and, with John Barnard, published iThe Early Seventeenth-century York Book Trade/i and iJohn Foster's Inventory of 1616/I (1994). She has
published widely on women in the seventeenth-century book trade and was contributor and Assistant Editor to volume IV of the Cambridge History of the Book in Britain/i. Director of the British Book Trade Index on the Web, funded by the AHRB. Currently Reader in English Literature and Head of the
Department of English at the University of Birmingham.

Review:

These three valuable volumes are a synthesis of projects independently conceived and undertaken by Maureen Bell and the late Don McKenzie between two and three decades ago, and now completed by Bell. They offer a digest of all the references to the book trade and its workers in some of the key printed records for seventeenth-century bibliographical history... They will certainly save researchers a great deal of time and open up new leads. Maureen Bell has done a tremendous public service in producing them. * Joad Raymond, Times Literary Supplement * No-one whose work involves books printed and published in Britain between 1640 and 1700 can afford to neglect these volumes. * David McKetterick, The Book Collector * They are immensely practical, and attractively printed. The amount of labour they conceal is astonishing. * Joad Raymond, Times Literary Supplement * It is impossible to overestimate the importance of this book; all of those involved in it, but particularly Maureen Bell who brought so great a project to completion, deserve our gratitude and our admiration. * John Feather, Sharp News * ...we should celebrate the names of McKenzie and Bell for their Herculean endeavours in the service of bibliographical scholarship. * Ian Gadd, Journal of Printing Historical Society *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0198181760
• ISBN 13: 9780198181767
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 482