Books With Manuscript

By R.C. Alston

Marginal annotations to printed books are a little studied aspect of the history of books and the transmission of ideas, providing a commentary on published texts which is conventionally anonymous, critical and economical. While many annotations are no more than individual comments on or disagreements with what an author has written, in a significant number of cases marginal notes have been found to be authorial, often adding an important new dimension to the original text.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0712303294
• ISBN13: 9780712303293
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: British Library Board
• Length: 616 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 1.8" x 8.0"