This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.

Francis Connor's detailed and well-researched monograph therefore charts the publication of literary folios from the private, elite coteries to the public, commercial sphere; through this progression, ideas of the book evolved and were negotiated in early modern Englandindeed, the chapter divisions reflect this. Connor's monograph adds to the significant corpus of book-history research . (Jocelyn Hargrave, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

Autorentext

Francis X. Connor is an Assistant Professor of English at Wichita State University, USA.

Inhalt

1. Samuel Daniel's Works and the History of the Book 2. Ben Jonson's Workes 3. John Taylor and the Commercial Folio