Early modern herbals and the book trade : English stationers and the commodification of botany /
Neville, Sarah (Assistant professor of English),
Early modern herbals and the book trade : English stationers and the commodification of botany / Sarah Neville. - 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Dec 2021).
Open Access.
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781009031615.
9781009031615 (ebook)
Herbals--History and criticism.--England
Publishers and publishing--History.--England
Botany--History.--England
QK14.5 / .N48 2022
615.3/210942
Early modern herbals and the book trade : English stationers and the commodification of botany / Sarah Neville. - 1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Dec 2021).
Open Access.
Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781009031615.
9781009031615 (ebook)
Herbals--History and criticism.--England
Publishers and publishing--History.--England
Botany--History.--England
QK14.5 / .N48 2022
615.3/210942