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'Grossly material things' : women and book production in Early Modern England

Grossly Material Things is the 108,000 word product of an eight-year project that analyses several considerable bodies of material, including unpublished manuscripts (private letters, patent rolls, court records, accounts); the Stationers' Company Registers and related documents held in the National Archives; and unique copies of early printed books in British and American libraries. Chapters one and two relied upon the completion of a lengthy period collecting and analysing printed prefatory matter in books from 1475-1642; chapters three and four upon the completion of a similar period compiling and analysing information about the careers of women stationers and their male partners.