Product Description: This latest volume in the British Library’s prestigious series on the history of the manuscript in English comprises ten articles on a diverse range of texts and authors, including the “Feathery Scribe,” Leicester’s Commonwealth, Sir Robert Cotton, Robert Herrick, the Earl of Rochester, and John Locke, as well as two recently discovered plays—The Destruction of Hierusalem and Feniza or The Ingeniouse Mayde...read more

Product Description: CLICK HERE to download the free chapter called, "Training for Power" from Bouldering(Provide us with a little information and we'll send your download directly to your inbox)* Includes technical photographs, charts, and illustrations* Contributing photography and advice from Dave Graham, Daniel Woods, Jamie Emerson, and many others* Appendix highlights top bouldering destinations all over the worldBouldering: Movement, Tactics, and Problem Solving demonstrates not just the basics of how to boulder, but also how to get better at it and take it to the next level...read more

Product Description: Expanding upon a topic in manuscript studies that has in recent years attracted increasing attention from literary scholars, Manuscript Miscellanies explores important and distinguishing characteristics of early modern manuscript verse and prose miscellanies...read more

Product Description: New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts explores both newly discovered manuscripts and new aspects of known manuscript writings by a number of major early modern authors—including genres such as commonplace books, sermons, unpublished poems, and previously unrecognized printer’s copies...read more

Product Description: As Queen of England for nearly forty-five years, Elizabeth I left behind a formidable and fascinating paper trail. She wrote copiously, including works in verse and in prose, original works and translations, treatises, prayers, and speeches, but as the essays collected in Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing demonstrate, Elizabeth did not simply participate in the cultural phenomenon of the growth of writing—as the most powerful person in Britain, her example played an instrumental part in its spread...read more

Product Description: Since its inception in 1989, EMS has established itself as the foremost venue for the study of manuscript sources for British literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Aiming as much as ever to explore the possibilities of manuscript study in this period, Volume 11 includes significant contributions by some of the leading authorities in the field...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to modern times. Contributors for Volume 8 include Hilton Kelliher on "Beaumont, Fletcher and Field: New Biographical Light from Cambridge Records", James Knowles on "The Duke of Buckingham Masque", Peter Beal on "The Gower Manuscript of Poems by Thomas Carew", Scott Nixon on "The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry", Richard Charteris on "A Newly Discovered Songbook in Poland with Works by Henry Lawes and his Contemporarie"s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: English Manuscript Studies is an annual periodical reflecting the growing level of scholarly interest in manuscript sources for literature and intellectual history from medieval to early modern times. Contributors to Volume 7 include Timothy Raynor, Karl Joseph Holtgen, Julia Griffin, Frances Harris, Nathryn McKinley, Rodney Thompson, and Michael Gullick...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume, the third in the series, discusses the works of 11 British 18th-century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use of the MS, and the existence of any published facsimiles...read more

Product Description: This locates and describes the surviving manuscripts of 24 British 17th century writers, providing information on the nature of the MS, date, variant title(s), state of completion, provenance and location, date and first form of publication, any scholarly use made of the MS, and existence of any published facsimiles...read more