Marginated: Seventeenth Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers

John Considine,Sylvia Brown

ISBN 10: 1551952564 / ISBN 13: 9781551952567

Published by University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton, 2010

About this Item

8vo Larger pp. ix 2 161. Signed by both authors on half title page.

Seller Inventory # 84616

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Marginated: Seventeenth Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers
• Publisher: University of Alberta Libraries, Edmonton
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551952564
• ISBN 13: 9781551952567
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Book Type: book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Signed Canadian

About this title

Synopsis

Meaning "provided with marginal annotations," marginated neatly describes the items featured in this extensively researched catalogue. From presentation inscriptions to readers' commentaries to children's doodles, the variety of annotations that appear in these 17th-century books gives unique insight into the lives of their readers-and, indeed, into the lives of the books, as they passed from owner to owner. This catalogue was published to accompany a 2010 exhibit at the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library and features items from the Library's collection.

About the Author

Sylvia Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her areas of research include women's writing and gender in the early modern period, Milton, Bunyan, and early modern print culture. The author and editor of several articles and books, she is currently working toward the completion of a monograph entitled Household Reformations: Women, Textual Culture, and the Survival of Protestantism. John Considine is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, specializing in lexicography, the history of the English language, early modern British literature and culture, and the history of the book. Among his recent publications is Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and Making Heritage. He is currently at work on a sequel.