• 1. Introduction
• 2. Vanished Libraries of Classical Antiquity
• 3. Vanished Libraries of Anglo-Saxon England
• 4. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (I): The Evidence of Inventories
• 5. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (II): The Evidence of Manuscripts
• 6. Reconstructing Anglo-Saxon Libraries (III): The Evidence of Citations
• 7. Conclusions
• Appendix A: Six Inventories of Latin Books from Anglo-Saxon Libraries (Excluding Biblical and Liturgical Books)
• Appendix B: Eighth-Century Inventories of Books from the Areas of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
• Appendix C: Surviving Eighth-Century Manuscripts from the Area of the Anglo-Saxon Mission in Germany
• Appendix D: Ninth-Century Manuscripts of Continental Origin Having Pre-Conquest English Provenance
• Appendix E: Books Cited by the Principal Anglo-Saxon Authors
• Catalogue of Classical and Patristic Authors and Works Composed before AD 700 and Known in Anglo-Saxon England
• Index of Manuscripts
• General Index.
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The cardinal role of Anglo-Saxon libraries in the transmission of classical and patristic literature to the later middle ages has long been recognized, for these libraries sustained the researches of those English scholars whose writings determined the curriculum of medieval schools: Aldhelm, Bede, and Alcuin, to name only the best known. Yet this is the first full-length account of the nature and holdings of Anglo-Saxon libraries from the sixth century to the eleventh. The early chapters discuss libraries in antiquity, notably at Alexandria and republican and imperial Rome, and also the Christian libraries of late antiquity which supplied books to Anglo-Saxon England. Because Anglo-Saxon libraries themselves have almost completely vanished, three classes of evidence need to be combined in order to form a detailed impression of their holdings: surviving inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations of classical and patristic works by Anglo-Saxon authors themselves. After setting out the problems entailed in using such evidence, the book is provided with appendices containing editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon inventories, lists of all Anglo-Saxon manuscripts exported to continental libraries during the eighth century and then all manuscripts re-imported into England in the tenth, as well as a catalogue of all citations of classical and patristic literature by Anglo-Saxon authors. A comprehensive index, arranged alphabetically by author, combines these various classes of evidence so that the reader can see at a glance what books were known where and by whom in Anglo-Saxon England. The book thus provides, within a single volume, a vast amount of information on the books and learning of the schools which determined the course of medieval literary culture.
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• ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Tables""; ""Plate section""; ""Introduction""; ""
• Chapter 1: Henry S. King: businessman of letters""; ""
• Chapter 2: Charles Kegan Paul, pastor to publisher""; ""
• Chapter 3: Kegan Paul, Trench â€? the partnership with a reputation for serious and beautiful books, 1877â€?1888""; ""
• Chapter 4: Kegan Paul, Trench, TrÃ?bner & Co. Ltd.: a financial crisis and a revolution in management, 1889â€?1911""; ""
• Chapter 5: The Kegan Paul legacy: the making, consolidation and survival of a reputation for serious books""; ""Notes""; ""Chronology of Events""

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Kegan Paul imprint was created and its reputation for a distinguished list of titles established during a forty-year period from 1871 to 1911. Several publishers, and their firms, were involved in the development of the imprint during this period, beginning with Henry S. King and Company, and following in 1877 with Charles Kegan Paul and his partner Alfred Chenevix Trench. A financial crisis in 1889 forced an amalgamation with two other businesses and the new firm changed managers periodically until George Routledge and Son took over the business in 1911.Leslie Howsam combines biography and analytic bibliography in her study of the Kegan Paul imprint to demonstrate the value of publishing history as a contribution to the scholarly study of the book. Basing her research on intensive work in the company's surviving archives and supplemented by extensive library work with the actual books, Howsam looks at the wide range of significant titles published for the imprint. In addition, she reconstructs a biographical and business history of the firm based on published and unpublished accounts of the individuals involved, including the publishers and their families, and looks at the effects of changing business practices. The focus of Victorian Imprint Kegan Paul is the duality of imprint: the publisher's imprint upon a list of books, and publisher's personalities, the imprint of their taste and judgment on the culture in which they lived.
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• List of illustrations-- List of contributors-- Acknowledgements-- Introduction: discovering the Renaissance reader Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker-- Part I. The Material Text:
• 1. Errata: print, politics, and poetry in early modern England Seth Lerer--
• 2. Abandoning the capital in eighteenth-century London Richard Wendorf-- Part II. Reading as Politics:
• 3. 'Boasting of silence': women readers and the patriarchal state Heidi Brayman Hackel--
• 4. Reading revelations: prophecy, hermeneutics and politics in early modern Britain Kevin Sharpe-- Part III. Print, Politics and Performance:
• 5. Performances and playbooks: the closing of the theatres and the politics of drama David Scott Kastan--
• 6. Irrational, impractical and unprofitable: reading the news in seventeenth-century Britain Joad Raymond-- Part IV. Reading Physiologies:
• 7. Reading bodies Michael Shoenfeldt--
• 8. Reading and experiment in the early Royal Society Adrian Johns-- Part V. Reading Texts in Time:
• 9. Martial, Jonson and the assertion of plagiarism Joseph Loewenstein--
• 10. The constitution of opinion and the pacification of reading Steven N. Zwicker--
• 11. Cato's retreat: fabula, historia and the question of constitutionalism in Mr Locke's anonymous Essay on Government Kirsie M. McClure-- Index.
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This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific historical moments from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It also charts the changes in reading habits that reflect broader social and political shifts during the period. A team of expert contributors cover topics including the processes of book production and distribution, audiences and markets, the material text, the relation of print to performance, and the politics of acts of reception. In addition, the volume emphasises the independence of early modern readers and their role in making meaning in an age in which increased literacy equaled social enfranchisement and interpretation was power. Meaning was not simply an authorial act but the work of many hands and processes, from editing, printing, and proofing, to reproducing, distributing, and finally reading.
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