Category: Book History

Used Books–Now Available

Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England William H. Sherman 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 36 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4043-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume… READ MORE

Reading Women–Now Available

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth… READ MORE

Shamelessly Disorderly Reading

If your leisure reading habits have been a bit haphazard lately, you are in good company. In a recent essay for Common-place, Matthew P. Brown shamelessly admits to grazing magazines… READ MORE

Resolution of Appreciation for Martin Meyerson

The Penn Press Board of Trustees unanimously approved the following resolution of appreciation for the work of Martin Meyerson, University of Pennsylvania President Emeritus, who died earlier this year at… READ MORE

Voice in Motion–Now Available

Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern England Gina Bloom 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth  2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4006-1 | $59.95 |… READ MORE

Road to Jerusalem–Now Available

The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery F. Thomas Noonan 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 38 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3994-2 |… READ MORE