Joad Raymond is Lecturer in English Literature, University of East Anglia

'… rich and well-written … Raymond shows an impressive command of the diverse fields central to the history of the pamphlet …' The Times Literary Supplement

• List of illustrations; List of figures; Preface; Notes on conventions; Prologue: changing experiences, 1588, 1642, 1688; 1. What is a pamphlet?; 2. 'How loudely they cry': Marprelate, purity and paper bullets; 3. 'Stitchers, Binders, Stationers, Hawkers': printing practices and the book trade; 4. 'A mongrel race of Mercuries lately sprung up': the business of news, c. 1580–1660; 5. 'From words to blowes': Scottish origins of the explosion of print, 1637–42; 6. 'This bookish partiall formall fierce factious animositous age': printing revolutions, 1641–60; 7. 'Speaking abroad': gender, female authorship and pamphleteering; 8. 'A Bog of Plots, Sham-plots, Subordinations and Perjuries': pamphlets and polemic in the Restoration; Epilogue; Index of names and titles; General index.