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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
$16.99What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, “succeed[ing]…
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Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.888-1600 in London Libraries
$190.00This Catalogue, with 285 illustrated entries and 318 original-size photographs, provides an invaluable conspectus of histories and chronicles, legal and medical manuscripts, Livery Companies’ Ordinance Books, as well as literary…
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Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe
$32.00This book, by one of the most distinguished of contemporary cultural historians, examines the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts…
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Syon Abbey with the Libraries of the Carthusians
$160.00Syon Abbey, the only house of the Bridgettine order in England, was founded in 1415. The celebrated literary activities of the brethren were supported by a magnificent library, one of…
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The Catalogues of Henry de Kirkestede
$180.00In the middle years of the fourteenth century, the monk Henry de Kirkestede, librarian and later prior of Bury St Edmunds abbey, set about compiling a universal bibliography of writers…
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The Library of Peterborough Abbey
$120.00This volume brings together every catalogue and book-list to survive from the library of Peterborough Abbey, one of the great monastic houses of medieval England. The lists range in date…
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University and College Libraries of Cambridge
$293.00The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books. In complicated networks of acquisition and exchange, books were bought, borrowed, copied, and bequeathed. Colleges came to…