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Article: Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp, eds. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. 3, 1400-1557.
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- Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada
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- March 22, 2002
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xxiv, 744 pp. [pounds sterling] 90 (hardcover). ISBN 0 521 573467.
The new Cambridge History of the Book in Britain begins in medias res with the third of seven projected volumes, covering the period from 1400 to 1557. On the basis of this volume we can look forward to a national history which will fulfill its mandate well and complement both the existing and forthcoming accounts of the book elsewhere in Europe and in the English-speaking world.
The period the volume covers is demarcated by shifts in technology, most notably the arrival of print in 1476, in the organization of the book trade, and to a ...