Bound to Read

Bound to Read
Author: Jeffrey Todd Knight
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-05-29
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0812245075

Jeffrey Todd Knight excavates the culture of book collecting and compiling in early modern England, examining how the pervasive practice of mixing texts, authors, and genres into single bindings defined Renaissance ways of thinking and writing.