Review of Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700.(Book review)

Publication: Early Modern Literary Studies

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Matthew Steggle

Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio. Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700. Chicago: U of Chicago Library, 2005. xii+124 pp. ISBN 943056 34 9.

Katrin Ettenhuber

Christ's College, Cambridge

kce20@cam.ac.uk

Ettenhuber, Katrin. "Review of Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio, Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700." Early Modern Literary Studies 12.1 (May, 2006) 9.1-4 .

Bradin Cormack's and Carla Mazzio's Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700 is based on an exhibition organised for the Special Collections Research Centre at the University of Chicago Library in Spring 2005. The volume is a valuable contribution to the growing field of book history, and situates itself at the interface between the social and material dimensions of early modern book production. The idea of 'use' is crucial in this respect, both as a principle of selection and arrangement and as...

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