Bennett, H. S.

ENGLISH BOOKS & READERS: being a study in the history of the book trade . . . [1475 to 1640].

In three volumes. Volume I: 1475 to 1557 . . . Caxton to the incorporation of the Stationers' Company. Pp. xiv+338(last blank), appendices, bibliography, indices; Volume II: 1558 to 1603 . . . in the reign of Elizabeth I. Pp. xviii+320; Volume III: 1603 to 1640 . . . in the reigns of James I and Charles I. Pp. xiv+254(last blank), plus appendices, bibliographies, indices; demy 8vo; maroon boards, spines lettered in gilt, boards a trifle scuffed Volume I; price-clipped dust wrappers, lightly browned, soiled and worn, edges lightly split; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns of Volumes II and III, edges of leaves slightly soiled and foxed, fore-edges of third volume lightly marked; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962-1970. Volume 1 second edition, others first editions. *A series of three volumes giving a history of society at the beginning of the art of printing, including evidence for public literacy, the regulation of the book trade, the demand for books, the authors, translators, and printers of early books, 1475-1640. Item #163387

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