The Nature of the Page: Poetry, Papermaking, and the Ecology of Texts in Renaissance England

by Joshua Calhoun

An innovative study of books and reading that focuses on papermaking in the Renaissance

In The Nature of the Page, Joshua Calhoun tells the story of handmade paper in Renaissance England and beyond. For most of the history of printing, paper was made primarily from recycled rags, so this is a story about using old clothes to tell new stories, about plants used to make clothes, and about plants that frustrated papermakers' best...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081225189X
• ISBN13: 9780812251890
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 7.3" x 10.3"