The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of Their Readers

by Sylvia Brown and John Considine

The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of their Readers draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, presenting an array of readerly interactions with books in the form of annotations, improvements, corrections, ornamentation, and suggestive wear-and-tear. In this scholarly catalogue, Brown and Considine describe and contextualize the notable physical traces of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551953021
• ISBN13: 9781551953021
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 10.0"