Author: Zachary Lesser

In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: …

Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain–their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historic …

Introduces readers to the history of books in Britain–their significance, influence, and current and future status Presented as a comprehensive, up-to-date narrative, The Book in Britain: A Historic …

”Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge”, wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo”s, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept …

”Conversation is the beginning and end of knowledge”, wrote Stephano Guazzo in his Civil Conversation. Like Guazzo”s, this is a book dedicated to the Renaissance concept of conversation, a concept …

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a ‘collected works’ of William Shakespeare, not in an imposingly large format but …