Early Modern Print Technologies

Roebuck, Thomas (2024) Early Modern Print Technologies. In: Europe in British Literature and Culture. Cambridge Themes in British Literature and Culture . Cambridge University Press, pp. 199-212. ISBN 9781009425490

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Abstract

In 1632 the Mayor and officials of the town of King’s Lynn in Norfolk, not far from Cambridge, decided to invest in establishing a library for the town’s principal church, St Margaret’s. They had £73 to spend on buying books which would form the core of the church’s – and the town’s – new library. A splendid vellum Donors’ Book for the library, prepared by the cleric and scholar John Arrowsmith (1602-59), itemizes each of the books they bought, providing a fascinating witness to the books which were considered of fundamental importance for an educated church community in this period, one that was situated outside both England’s universities and the metropolitan centre of London.

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Heritage and History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Medieval and Early Modern Research Group
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Date Deposited:	04 Aug 2023 14:31
Last Modified:	12 Oct 2025 00:21
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/92783
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