The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy — Now Available
09/26/2011
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy Edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear 329 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4352-9 |… READ MORE
Category: Book History
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy–Now Available
09/07/2011
The Hebrew Book in Early Modern Italy Edited by Joseph R. Hacker and Adam Shear 329 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4352-9 |… READ MORE
The Bohemians–Now in Paperback
08/18/2011
The Bohemians Anne Gédéon Lafitte, Marquis de Pelleport. Translated by Vivian Folkenflik. Introduction by Robert Darnton 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4194-5 | $34.95 |… READ MORE
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic–Now in Paperback
08/11/2011
Dangerous to Know: Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic Susan Branson 200 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4088-7 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Devil in the Holy Water–Now in Paperback
08/08/2011
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Penned in Prison: The Bohemians and the Bastille
07/14/2011
In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE
Divine Art, Infernal Machine–Now Available
01/24/2011
Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 336 pages | 6 x 9 |… READ MORE
The Queen’s Library–Now Available
11/12/2010
The Queen's Library: Image-Making at the Court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 Cynthia J. Brown 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 48 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4282-9 |… READ MORE
A Skeptic’s Guide to Writers’ Houses–Now Available
10/05/2010
A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek 168 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4292-8 | $24.95 | £16.50 "A remarkable book: part… READ MORE
Hobbins Talk on “Publishing Before Print” Tonight
10/04/2010
Today at 5:15 p.m., Daniel Hobbins will be offering a talk on "Publishing Before Print: How Jean Gerson Reached a Massive Market of Readers Before Gutenberg" in the Martin and… READ MORE
