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.

• 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.

'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