Printing the Written Word : the Social History of Books, c. 1450-1520

How did the earliest printers go about their work? What factors accounted for economic success or failure? How did artists collaborate with printers? Who made up the audience for new books? Were printed books read differently than manuscript books? This collections addresses such key questions relating to the development of the book during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Sandra L. Hindman brings together ten new essays representing a wide range of scholarly disciplines, including art history, literature, history, theater, and analytic bibliography