Caxton's Trace

Caxton's Trace is an ambitious collection of essays whose contributions extend well beyond their late fifteenth-century focus. This volume is particularly impressive for its integrity: the chapters cohere to a remarkable degree, creating sustained interventions in our ongoing study of printing, of technology and culture, of early capitalism, and of English nationalism. -- Journal of British Studies , vol. 46, no. 1, January 2007 Caxton's Trace is an ambitious collection of essays whose contributions extend well beyond their late fifteenth-century focus. This volume is particularly impressive for its integrity: the chapters cohere to a remarkable degree, creating sustained interventions in our ongoing study of printing, of technology and culture, of early capitalism, and of English nationalism. Journal of British Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, January 2007 These ten essays ambitiously cover a circuit of human production and consumption from early English printers to readers; from merchants to kings; and from literature to commerce and politics. Somewhat surprised by the commercial nature of books, they bring the literary community's analytical methods to material evidence. SHARP News (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), Winter 2008 This collection of ten essays, each by a different scholar, seeks to reappraise Caxton s achievement and influence chiefly on later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English printing . . . . David Carlson has good things to say about Caxton s jobbing printing. A. E. B Coldiron looks closely and well at the various early modern printings of Christine de Pisan s Proverbs. And Tim Machan gives an excellent overview of the printing of medieval English texts in the first half of the sixteenth century. Times Literary Supplement, July 28, 2006 Caxton's Trace is an ambitious collection of essays whose contributions extend well beyond their late fifteenth-century focus. This volume is particularly impressive for its integrity: the chapters cohere to a remarkable degree, creating sustained interventions in our ongoing study of printing, of technology and culture, of early capitalism, and of English nationalism. --Journal of British Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, January 2007 This collection of ten essays, each by a different scholar, seeks to reappraise Caxton's achievement and influence chiefly on later fifteenth- and sixteenth-century English printing . . . . David Carlson has good things to say about Caxton's jobbing printing. A. E. B Coldiron looks closely and well at the various early modern printings of Christine de Pisan's Proverbs. And Tim Machan gives an excellent overview of the printing of medieval English texts in the first half of the sixteenth century. --Times Literary Supplement, July 28, 2006 These ten essays ambitiously cover a circuit of human production and consumption from early English printers to readers; from merchants to kings; and from literature to commerce and politics. Somewhat surprised by the commercial nature of books, they bring the literary community's analytical methods to material evidence. --SHARP News(Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), Winter 2008 Caxton's Trace is an ambitious collection of essays whose contributions extend well beyond their late fifteenth-century focus. This volume is particularly impressive for its integrity: the chapters cohere to a remarkable degree, creating sustained interventions in our ongoing study of printing, of technology and culture, of early capitalism, and of English nationalism. --Journal of British Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, January 2007