The Craft of Printing and the Publication of Shakespeare's Works
by George Walton Williams
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This introduction to some of the technicalities of printing in the Elizabethan period examines ways in which knowledge of those technicalities, as they can be discovered by examining the original printed editions of Shakespeare's works, can aid modern scholars in discovering what the physical object -- the book -- reveals about the literary artifact -- the text. Illustrated.Tags
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- Original publication date
- 1985
- People/Characters
- Gutenberg, Johannes, 1394/99-ca. 1468; Johann Genfleisch Gutenberg; William Shakespeare
- Dedication
- To Fredson Bowers
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The Invention of Printing
The engraved title page for a volume describing "New Discoveries" (Nova Reperta), published in Antwerp about A.D.1600, depicts as its central "discovery" a printing press (plate 2)... (show all).
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