Abstract: This dissertation fills the critical void on the history of Spenser and his editions. Applying the critical methods of the History of the Book, I situ

The first comprehensive study of the eighteenth-century response to the Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser, from editions to influence.

"How were books in early modern England made, circulated, sold, stored, read, marked, altered, preserved, and destroyed? The Oxford Handbook to the History of t

"The first biography in sixty years of the most important non-dramatic poet of the English Renaissance"--From publisher description.

The typographic imaginary is an aesthetic linking authors from William Caxton to Alexander Pope, this study centrally contends. Early modern English literature