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The Pens Excellencie

Author : Martin Billingsley

Publisher : Walter J. Johnson Incorporated

Page : 96 pages

File Size : 48,15 MB

Release : 1977

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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EARLY SOCIAL CUSTOMS. Imagine holding history in your hands. Now you can. Digitally preserved and previously accessible only through libraries as Early English Books Online, this rare material is now available in single print editions. Thousands of books written between 1475 and 1700 can be delivered to your doorstep in individual volumes of high quality historical reproductions. Social customs, human interaction and leisure are the driving force of any culture. These unique and quirky works give us a glimpse of interesting aspects of day-to-day life as it existed in an earlier time. With books on games, sports, traditions, festivals, and hobbies it is one of the most fascinating collections in the series. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ "The pen's excellencie, or, The secretaries delight wherein aswell the abuses wch [sic] are offered vnto ye worthines of ye pen by unworthie pen men are trulie dicovered, and ye dignity of ye art it self by ye antiquitie, excellencie" Secretaries delight. Billingsley, Martin, b. 1591. Contains engraved t.p. and letter of dedication. Imperfect: some leaves of plates unnumbered; engraved port., plate 26, some others? lacking. Signature B2 recto line 3 ends and'; line 14 has Carpers' with swash C'. Signatures: B-D4 [27] p., 28 leaves of plates: [London]: Are to be solde by Io. Sudbury & George Humble in Popeshead alley, [between 1620-1630?] STC (2nd ed.) / 3062.6 English Reproduction of the original in the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign Campus) ++++ This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the integrity of the original work, there are sometimes problems with the original work or the micro-film from which the books were digitized. This can result in errors in reproduction. Possible imperfections include missing and blurred pages, poor pictures, markings and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.



The Material Letter in Early Modern England

Author : J. Daybell

Publisher : Springer

Page : 373 pages

File Size : 49,60 MB

Release : 2012-04-24

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137006064

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The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.



Writing Matter

Author : Jonathan Goldberg

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 38,59 MB

Release : 1991-11-01

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 9780804719582

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A Stanford University Press classic.



Work in Hand

Author : Aileen Douglas

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 35,72 MB

Release : 2017-03-02

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0192506218

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Oxford Textual Perspectives is a new series of informative and provocative studies focused upon literary texts (conceived of in the broadest sense of that term) and the technologies, cultures and communities that produce, inform, and receive them. It provides fresh interpretations of fundamental works and of the vital and challenging issues emerging in English literary studies. By engaging with the materiality of the literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself, the volumes in the series question familiar frameworks and provide innovative interpretations of both canonical and less well-known works. Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing, 1690-1840 argues that between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries manual writing was a dynamic technology. It examines script in relation to becoming a writer; in constructions of the author; and in emerging ideas of the human. Revising views of print as displacing script, Work in Hand argues that print reproduced script, print generated script; and print shaped understandings of script. In this, the double nature of print, as both moveable type and rolling press, is crucial. During this period, the shapes of letters changed as the multiple hands of the early-modern period gave way to English round hand; the denial of writing to the labouring classes was slowly replaced by acceptance of the desirability of universal writing; understandings of script in relation to copying and discipline came to be accompanied by ideas of the autograph. The work begins by surveying representations of script in letterpress and engraving. It discusses initiation into writing in relation to the copy-books of English writing masters, and in the context of colonial pedagogy in Ireland and India. The middle chapters discuss the physical work of writing, the material dimensions of script, and the autograph, in constructions of the author in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and in relation to Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, William Blake, Isaac D'Israeli, and Maria Edgeworth. The final chapter considers the emerging association of script with ideas of the human in the work of the Methodist preacher Joseph Barker.



Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood

Author : Grace Ioppolo

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 43,52 MB

Release : 2013-04-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1134300050

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This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has been universally argued by scholars - but circular. Extant dramatic manuscripts, theatre records and accounts, as well as authorial contracts, memoirs, receipts and other archival evidence, are used to prove that the text returned to the author at various stages, including during rehearsal and after performance. This monograph provides much new information and case studies, and is a fascinating contribution to the fields of Shakespeare studies, English Renaissance drama studies, manuscript studies, textual study and bibliography and theatre history.







Language and Society in Early Modern England

Author : Vivian Salmon

Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing

Page : 286 pages

File Size : 14,94 MB

Release : 1996-09-06

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9027276099

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This volume brings together twelve previously published essays, divided into three sections: 1. Surveys of 16th- and 17th-Century Linguistic Scholarship, 2. The Study of Universal and Particular Traits of Language, and 3. Language Learning and Language Instruction. The volume is completed by an index of biographical names and an index of subjects and terms.



The Mind of the Book

Author : Alastair Fowler

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 271 pages

File Size : 37,81 MB

Release : 2017-02-16

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 019102743X

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Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History of the Book for the first time. The first part of The Mind of the Book explores the forerunner of the frontispiece in late antiquity; the use of frames and borders in title-pages; portraits; printers' devices; emblematic title-pages of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially attending to explanatory verses and arcane features such as chronograms; title-pages as 'memory prompts'; and eighteenth and nineteenth-century title-pages, tracing 'the rejection of emblematic and symbolic features and the introduction of unadorned, unpictorial, title-pages'. The second part of the book presents illustrations of sixteen significant title-pages with commentaries, ranging from Chaucer's Works in 1532 through Bacon's Instauratio Magna in 1620, Dicken's The Mystery of Edwin Drood in 1870, and arriving back at Chaucer with Edward Burnes-Jones's illustrated title-page for the Works of 1896.