02980nam 22005532 450 991058595900332120220107154638.01-009-03304-21-009-03323-91-009-03161-9(CKB)4100000012183521(UkCbUP)CR9781009031615(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90875(PPN)259250929(EXLCZ)99410000001218352120201204d2022|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEarly modern herbals and the book trade English stationers and the commodification of botany /Sarah Neville[electronic resource]Cambridge University Press2021Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2022.1 online resource (xv, 290 pages) digital, PDF file(s)HumanitiesTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Dec 2021).Open Access title.1-316-51599-0 Between 1525 and 1640, a remarkable phenomenon occurred in the world of print: England saw the production of more than two dozen editions identified by their imprints or by contemporaries as 'herbals'. Sarah Neville explains how this genre grew from a series of tiny anonymous octavos to authoritative folio tomes with thousands of woodcuts, and how these curious works quickly became valuable commodities within a competitive print marketplace. Designed to serve readers across the social spectrum, these rich material artifacts represented both a profitable investment for publishers and an opportunity for authors to establish their credibility as botanists. Highlighting the shifting contingencies and regulations surrounding herbals and English printing during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the book argues that the construction of scientific authority in Renaissance England was inextricably tied up with the circumstances governing print. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781009031615.HerbalsEnglandHistory and criticismPublishers and publishingEnglandHistoryBotanyEnglandHistoryEnglish literature - Renaissance and early modern topublishingprinting historyhistory of the bookhistory of science (general)HerbalsHistory and criticism.Publishers and publishingHistory.BotanyHistory.615.3/210942Neville Sarah(Assistant professor of English),1252877UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910585959003321Early modern herbals and the book trade2904675UNINA