Main entry:

Carlson, David R. (David Richard), 1956-

Title & Author:

English humanist books : writers and patrons, manuscript and print, 1475-1525 / David R. Carlson.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©1993.

Description:

x, 275 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-263).
1. Filippo Alberici, Cebes' Tablet, and Henry VII -- 2. Politicking and Manuscript Presentation: Pietro Carmeliano's Development of Publishing Methods 1482-86 -- 3. Authorial Self-Fashioning: Collected Works, in Manuscript and Print, in Bernard Andre's Later Career, 1509-17 -- 4. Authorial Parsimony: The Circulation of Some Poems of Erasmus, c. 1495-1518 -- 5. Printed and Manuscript Reduplication of the Same Piece of Writing: Robert Whittinton's Printed Opusculum of 1519 and a Manuscript for Cardinal Wolsey -- 6. Printers' Needs: Wynkyn de Worde's Piracy of William Lily's Epigrammata in 1522 -- 7. Formal Translation: Thomas More's Epigrams before and after 1518.

Summary:

During the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the technology for making books was changing and, with the introduction of printing, books were being put to new uses by an emergent group of professional humanists. David Carlson sees a fundamental point of intersection between humanist culture in England - then just beginning - and the books produced by humanists. Using manuscripts and printed books as his material for discussion of the development of humanist print culture n England, he links it to the traditions of English patronage and court life, and includes analysis of other sources of literary activity in the new learning, as, for instance, at the universities. Carlson points out that for fifty or one hundred years following the invention of printing, publication was not synonymous with publication in print. At the same time writing enjoyed a greater fluidity, since a wide range of publication options were available to writers - all of them legitimate means for delivering texts to an interested public. Writers, printers, and their patrons were aware of the different kinds of books. These included deluxe presentation manuscripts, sometimes used in combination with printed copies; the invention of collected works for manuscript or printed publication; and authorial revision and republication for print. Carlson also examines the ways writers used printers, and printers used writers; and how writers manipulated the different forms of publication.

ISBN:

0802029116
9780802029119
080207796X (pbk.)
9780802077967 (pbk.)

Subject:

Latin literature, Medieval and modern England Criticism, Textual.
Early printed books England 16th century Bibliography.
Authors and publishers England History 16th century.
Authors and patrons England History 16th century.
Printing England History Origin and antecedents.
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) England.
Printing England History 16th century.
Books England History 1450-1600.
Literary patrons Great Britain.
Humanists England.
Literature, Medieval.
Humanism England History 15th century.
Printing history
Books history
Manuscripts as Topic history
Humanism history
Humanisme Angleterre Histoire 15e siècle.
Humanisme Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Livres Angleterre Histoire 1450-1600.
Livres anciens Angleterre 16e siècle Bibliographie.
Écrivains et éditeurs Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Écrivains et mécènes Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Imprimerie Angleterre Histoire Origines et antécédents.
Manuscrits latins médiévaux et modernes Angleterre.
Imprimerie Angleterre Histoire 16e siècle.
Mécènes de la littérature Grande-Bretagne.
Humanistes Angleterre.
Littérature médiévale.
Humanism
Authors and patrons
Authors and publishers
Books
Early printed books
Humanists
Intellectual life
Latin literature, Medieval and modern
Literary patrons
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Printing
Printing Origin and antecedents
Humanisten.
Boekdrukkunst.
Humanism Great Britain History 15th century.
Humanism Great Britain History 16th century.
Books Great Britain History 1400-1600.
England Intellectual life 16th century.
England Intellectual life 1066-1485.
England Imprints.
Angleterre Vie intellectuelle 16e siècle.
Angleterre Vie intellectuelle 1066-1485.
England
Great Britain
Great Britain Intellectual life 1066-1485.
Great Britain Intellectual life 16th century.
Books History

Form/genre:

Bibliography
bibliographies.
Bibliographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 81403
Call No.: ID PA8045.E5 C37; ID:95-B2675
Status: Available