Tudor Books and Readers

John N. King is Distinguished University Professor and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies in the Department of English at the Ohio State University.

'John King's carefully edited volume sheds light on numerous aspects of Tudor book culture … most of the chapters directly relate to literary studies and offer valuable insights.' Annotated Bibliography of English Studies

• Introduction John N. King; 1. Prologue: the first years of the Tudor monarchy and the printing press Lotte Hellinga; Part I. Book Format, Marketing, and the Reception of Books: 2. The myth of the cheap quarto Joseph A. Dane and Alexandra Gillespie; 3. English literary folios 1593–1623: studying shifts in format Steven K. Galbraith; 4. Closing the books: the problematic printing of John Foxe's histories of Henry VII and Henry VIII in his Book of Martyrs (1570) Elizabeth Evenden; Part II. Print, Politics and Patronage: 5. 'This heavenly boke, more precyous than golde': legitimating print in early Tudor England Douglas A. Brooks; 6. Authorial and editorial influence on luxury bookbinding styles in sixteenth-century England Robert J. D. Harding; 7. Print in the time of parliament: 1560–1601 Cynthia Susan Clegg; Part III. Reading and Religion: 8. 'The spider and the bee': the perils of printing for refutation in Tudor England Alexandra Walsham; 9. Reading the woodcuts in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs John N. King; 10. Readers' marks and religious practice: Margaret Hoby's marginalia Andrew Cambers; 11. Books in the bedchamber: religion, accounting, and the library of Richard Stonley Jason Scott-Warren; Select bibliography; Index.