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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade - English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Hardcover)
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Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade - English Stationers and the Commodification of Botany (Hardcover)
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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.
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