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Tables of Contents for The Cambridge History of Britain
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of contributors
x
List of illustrations
xii
Preface
xvii
Introduction
1
30
Lotte Hellinga
J. B. Trapp
Literacy, books and readers
31
16
J. B. Trapp
TECHNIQUE AND TRADE
Foreign illuminators and illuminated manuscripts
47
18
J. J. G. Alexander
Printing
65
44
Lotte Hellinga
Bookbinding 1400--1557
109
19
M. M. Foot
The rise of London's book-trade
128
20
C. Paul Christianson
The customs rolls as documents for the printed-book trade in England
148
16
Paul Needham
The book trade under Edward VI and Mary I
164
15
John N. King
Importation of printed books into England and Scotland
179
26
Margaret Lane Ford
COLLECTIONS AND OWNERSHIP
Private ownership of printed books
205
24
Margaret Lane Ford
Monastic libraries: 1400--1557
229
26
David N. Bell
The early royal collections and the Royal Library to 1461
255
12
Jenny Stratford
The Royal Library from Edward IV to Henry VII
267
7
Janet Backhouse
The Royal Library under Henry VIII
274
11
James P. Carley
READING AND USE OF BOOKS
I. BOOKS FOR SCHOLARS
The humanist book
285
31
J. B. Trapp
University libraries and book-sellers
316
38
Elisabeth Leedham-Green
Text-books in the universities: the evidence from the books
354
26
Kristian Jensen
Text-books: a case study -- logic
380
7
E. J. Ashworth
II. PROFESSIONS
The canon law
387
12
R. H. Helmholz
The civil law
399
12
Alain Wijffels
The books of the common law
411
22
J. H. Baker
Medicine and science
433
16
Peter Murray Jones
III. THE LAY READER
Schools and school-books
449
21
Nicholas Orme
Practical books for the gentleman
470
25
George R. Keiser
Devotional literature
495
31
Mary C. Erler
Gentlewomen's reading
526
15
Carol M. Meale
Julia Boffey
Music
541
14
John Milsom
Literary texts
555
21
Julia Boffey
A. S. G. Edwards
Press, politics and religion
576
32
Pamela Neville-Sington
Appendix
608
3
List of abbreviations
611
5
Bibliography
616
53
Photo credits
669
2
General index
671
59
Index of manuscripts
730
8
Bibliographic index of printed books
738
7
Plates
745