Product Description: This critical study of one of the most successful engravers, print seller, and publishers of the late-18th century, Thomas Macklin, fills a lacuna of information about this major figure in book culture. Because so little has been said or written about Macklin, this work is a significant contribution to scholarship in this field and is essential reading for anyone with a serious interest in this period of history...read more

Product Description: Poet, painter, engraver, and mystic, William Blake (1757-1827) is unequalled for the imaginary force and visionary power of his works. This fascinating book collects all the known documentary records relating to Blake’s long and productive life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Annotated Catalogues of His Writings in Illuminated Printing, in Conventional Typography, and in Manuscript and Reprints thereof; Reproductions of His Designs; Books with His Engravings; Catalogues; Books He Owned; and Scholarly and Critical Works about Him.

Product Description: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels...read more

Product Description: A continuation of Blake Books (1977)--a bibliographical record of publications covering all aspects of William Blake's life and work, including his writings, drawings, and engravings, as well as works of criticism on them--this supplement picks up where Blake Books left off...read more

Product Description: Blake Records Supplement is a continuation of Blake Records (Clarendon Press, 1969), which attempted to collect and publish every reference made to William Blake by his contemporaries. The new book incorporates the wealth of information that has been found since 1969 in letters, advertisements, essays and journals, including references to Blake's musical ability, further evidence of R...read more

Product Description: Bentley presents the life and working methods of William Shakespeare with the strictest fidelity to the surviving documentation. By presenting the hundred or more surviving Shakespearean documents in the context of similar records, against the background of Elizabethan customs and prejudices, and in relation to one another, he sets up an essential outline of Shakespeare's life...read more

Product Description: This book is a comprehensive study of the customary practices of English players of the period--how they lived and worked and were paid, organized, and cast for parts in the phenomenally popular theaters of England. Gerald Bentley discusses sharers, hired men, boy apprentices, musicians, touring groups, and managers, showing that players in general led difficult but seriously professional lives...read more

Product Description: With essays by Gerald E Bentley Jr, Robert N Essick, Shelley M Bennett, and Morton D Paley. A group of young artists, now known as 'The Blake Followers', gathered around William Blake in the last years of his life. Of the four essays in this collection, two deal broadly with biographical information concerning the Blake Followers and their relations with Blake; the other two focus on specific problems of technique and literary interpretation...read more

Product Description: Annotated Catalogues of His Writings in Illuminated Printing, in Conventional Typography, and in Manuscript and Reprints thereof; Reproductions of His Designs; Books with His Engravings; Catalogues; Books He Owned; and Scholarly and Critical Works about Him.

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Product Description: 287 pages of excellent text.

Product Description: from chapter 1: "This book is an attempt to understand the regard in which Shakespeare and Ben Jonson were held by their contemporaries and successors in the seventeenth century. ... tendency to foist our own critical standards and literary judgments upon the public of Marlowe or Milton or Shakespeare is no doubt perfectly natural, but it is nonetheless a gross and dangerous distortion...read more