The Perils of Print Culture: Book, Print and Publishing History in Theory and Practice

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors 1. The Perils of Print Culture: An Introduction; Jason McElligott and Eve Patten 2. The Practice of Book and Print Culture: Sources, Methods, Readings; Leslie Howsam 3. 'Pretious treasures made cheap'? The Real Cost of Reading Roman History in Early Modern England; Freyja Cox Jensen 4. Early Printed Liturgical Books and the Modern Resources that Describe Them: The Case of the Hereford Breviary, 1505; Matthew Cheung Salisbury 5. 'Lacking Ware, withal': Finding Sir James Ware Among the Many Incarnations of his Histories; Mark Williams 6. Balancing Theoretical Models and Local Studies: the Case of William St. Clair and Copyright in Ireland; Sarah Crider Arndt 7. The Impact of Print in Ireland, 1680-1800: Problems and Perils; T.C. Barnard 8. Signs of the Times? Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories; Rebecca Bullard 9. Dangerous Detours: The Perils of Victorian Periodicals in the Digitized Age; Margery Masterson 10. Nineteenth-century Print on the Move: A Perilous Study of Trans-local Migration and Print Skills Transfer; David Finkelstein 11. The Problem with Libraries: The Case of Thomas Marshall's Collection of English Civil War Printed Ephemera; Annette Walton 12. The 'Lesser' Dürer? Text and Image in Early-modern Broadsheets; Cristina Neagu 13. 'Fair forms' and 'withered leaves': Rose Bud and the Peculiarities of Periodical Print; Anna Luker Gilding 14.'Print Culture' and the Perils of Practice; James Raven Index