Essential reading for print and book-historians, this study of Tudor Londoners explains for the first time how the Stationers\' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing.
Focusing on the lives and careers of individual book-traders, Blayney also rewrites the early history of book-privileges and press-control in England..
Essential reading for print and book-historians, this study of Tudor Londoners explains for the first time how the Stationers\' Company acquired both a charter and a nationwide monopoly of printing