Preface
Note on text
Abbreviations
1. The social meaning of print
Part one
2. The context of print: the growth of a written culture
3. The coming of the book, 1500-1650
4. The triumph of print, 1650-1700
Part two
5. Seading for salvation
6. Reading for power
7. Reading for profit and pleasure
Appendix
Raymond Gillespie is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at National University of Ireland, Maynooth
"'This book is to be welcomed heartily... the sooner this innovative and exciting study is in print the better.' Toby C. Barnard, Hertford College, Oxford"
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