Resources

What follows is a bibliography of texts and online resources that may be useful to those wishing to further their knowledge of the early modern book and its bibliographical description. A list of practical resources is followed by scholarly works in related fields of study.

Key texts on Bibliography and Textual Scholarship

• Barker, Nicolas and John Carter. ABC for Book Collectors. New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
• Barnard, John and DF McKenzie. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, 1557-1695. Vol. 4. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• Gaskell, Philip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. 1972. Winchester: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1995.
• Greetham, D.C. Textual Scholarship: An Introduction. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.
• Greetham, D.C. Theories of the Text. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Kenneison, W.C. and A.J.B. Spilman. Dictionary of Printing, Papermaking and Bookbinding. London: Newnes, 1963.

Bookbinding

• Etherington, Don and Matt T. Roberts, Bookbinding and the Conservation of books; A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology.
• Fine Irish Bindings. Trinity College Dublin. <http://www.cs.tcd.ie/John.Byrne/libproj/bindings.htm>
• Publisher’s Bindings Online. The University of Alabama, 2005-2008. <http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/index.html>
• The British Library Database of Bookbindings. <http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/Default.aspx>

Prints and illustrations

• Gascoigne, Bamber. How to Identify Prints. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
• Graphics Atlas. Image Permanence Institute. Rochester Institute of Technology, 2012. <http://www.graphicsatlas.org/>
• McKerrow, Ronald B. and F.S. Ferguson. Title-Page Borders in England and Scotland 1485-1640. London: Bibliographical Society at the Oxford University Press, 1932.
• McKerrow, Ronald B. Printers’ and Publishers Devices 1485-1640. London : Bibliographical Society at the Chiswick Press, 1913.
• Plomer, Henry R. English Printers’ Ornaments. London: Grafton & Co., 1924.
• Pollard, Alfred W. Early Illustrated Books; A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 1893. <http://www.archive.org/stream/earlyillustrated00polliala#page/n9/mode/2up>

Useful websites

• The Universal Short Title Catalogue. University of St. Andrews. <http://www.ustc.ac.uk/>
• English Short Title Catalogue. The British Library Board. <http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc>
• Early English Books Online. ProQuest LLC. <http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home>
• 1641 Depositions. Trinity College Library Dublin. <http://www.1641.tcd.ie/>
• Bibliopolis. National Library of the Netherlands. <http://www.bibliopolis.nl/>
• Cardiff Shakespeare. <http://cardiffshakespeare.wordpress.com/>
• Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature des Voyages.<http://msh-diffusion.univ-bpclermont.fr/crlv2/swm/Page_accueil_swm1.php>
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University. <http://image.ox.ac.uk/>
• Early Modern Forum. University of Warwick. <http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/emforum>
• Emblematica Online. University of Illinois. <http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/>
• English Handwriting 1500-1700: an online course. <http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/index.html>
• Latin Place Names. Bibliographic Standards Committee. Association of College and Research Libraries. Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. <http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm>
• Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes. <http://www.bvh.univ-tours.fr/>
• Liverpool Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. University of Liverpool. <http://www.liv.ac.uk/cmrs/index.htm>
• Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online. University of Cambridge. <http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/>
• Shakespeare and the Book. The Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library and The Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning. <http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/shakespeareandthebook/#>
• SHARP. (Society for the History of Authorship). <http://www.sharpweb.org/>
• The Hakluyt Edition Project. <http://www.hakluyt.org>

Further readings

• Barnard, John and DF McKenzie. Ed. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume IV. 1557-1695. New York: Cambridge University Press,2002.
• Blayney, Peter. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Washington, D.C. : Folger Library Publications, 1991.
• Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as Agent of Change. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
• Hellinga, Lotte. Ed. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain. Volume III. 1400-1557. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Hinman, Carlton. The Printing and Proofreading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963.
• Johns, Adrian M. The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
• Kastan, David Scott. Shakespeare and the Book. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Maguire, Laurie. ‘The Craft of Printing (1600)’. A Companion to Shakespeare. Ed. David Scott Kastan. Oxford: Blackwell Publ., 1999. 434-49.
• McKenzie, D.F. Marking Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and Other Essays. S.l.: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
• Murphy, Andrew. Ed. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2009.
• Sherman, William. Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
• Simpson, Percy. Proof-Reading in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. London, Oxford University Press, 1935.
• Slights, William W.E. Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
• Stern, Tiffany. Making Shakespeare: from stage to page. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.
• Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
• Wall, Wendy M. The Imprint of Gender: Authorship and Publication in the English Renaissance. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993.
• West, Anthony James. ‘The Publication of Playbooks’. A New History of English Renaissance Drama. Ed. John D. Cox and David Scott Kastan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 383-422.
• West, Anthony James. The Shakespeare First Folio. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.