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  • Bibliography and the Book Trades

    Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England

    von Hugh Amory
    Serien series Material Texts
    Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.Amory Lesen Sie mehr

    € 51,14

  • Bibliography and the Book Trades

    Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England

    von Hugh Amory
    Serien series Material Texts
    Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context and indicates its significance; Hall has also provided headnotes for each of the essays.Amory Lesen Sie mehr

    € 63,90

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  • The Trials of Phillis Wheatley

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