Books in the The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series

Between the death of Chaucer in 1400 and the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557, manuscript culture gave way to printed books. This volume traces the transition and discerns patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand.

This is the first, and the only, comprehensive history of the book in England and Wales from the Norman Conquest until c.1400. This volume analyses the manuscript book from a wide variety of angles: manufacture (including decoration), function, readership, and contents. It includes a full bibliography and 80 plates.

A comprehensive account of the changing forms and functions of books and literary culture in Britain in relation to their historical context, from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times.

The fullest account ever published of the nineteenth-century revolution in printing, publishing and bookselling, this volume brings The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain up to a point when the world of books took on a recognisably modern form.

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for students, scholars and a general audience interested in book history, publishing studies, and the cultural history of Britain in the twentieth century and beyond.

This volume covers the history of printing and publishing from the lapse of government licensing of printed works in 1695 to the industrialization of book production around 1830. Interdisciplinary in its perspective, this book will be an important scholarly resource for many years to come.

This volume focuses on the years between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. Comprising thirty-eight chapters, it looks at how printed texts interacted with oral and manuscript cultures in a time of religious divisions and civil war.