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Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England Paperback - 1985
by Margaret Spufford
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The attention of historians interested in pre-industrial communities and in non-elites within them has only recently slowly turned from the reconstruction of the economic framework of such communities to the much more nebolous and more difficult attempt to recreate the mental world and imagery which such people had at their disposal.
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- Title Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and Its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England
- Author Margaret Spufford
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Paperback
- Pages 300
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- Date 1985-10-31
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780521312189 / 0521312183
- Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.67 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.70 cm)
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- Cultural Region: British
- Cultural Region: Western Europe
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86013033
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.509
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Cambridge University Press, 1985 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 2nd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A little shelf wear. Spine is a bit sunned. Edges of text block are a bit soiled. Page edges are starting to tan. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. Index. xxi, 275 pp..
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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Dr Spufford's book examines the profits made by these publishers, the scale of their operations, and the way the 'small books' were distributed throughout the country. It also examines their content, and compares the English chapbooks w
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Small books and pleasant histories : popular fiction and its readership in seventeenth-century England / Margaret Spufford
by Spufford, Margaret
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Letter from previous owner stapled to cover. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description; xxi, 275 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. Contents; The mental world of the peasant reader -- Elementary education and the acquisition of reading skills -- Direct and indirect evidence for readership of the chapbooks -- The fortunes and the volume of stock of the chapbook publishers -- The distributors: pedlars, hawkers and petty chapmen -- The content of Samuel Pepys's collection and the biblioth�que bleue -- Small merry books: courtship, sex and songs -- Small Godly books: popular religion -- Portraits of society: historical and chivalric novels -- Conclusion -- Appendix: The chapbook section of the trade-list of William Thackeray, c. 1689. Subjects; Pepys, Samuel 1633-1703 Library. 17th century.…
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