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"The story of the written word in the pre-Gutenberg age. Ranging from the earliest intact book in Europe, to the only known literary manuscript to be written in Shakespeare's hand, scholar Mary Wellesley reveals the secret lives of these literary and artistic treasures. Traipsing through the remarkable history, she recounts fires (the only surviving Beowulf manuscript is singed at its edges, losing a bit of its matter every decade) and threats ('this is Elisabeth Danes's book / he that steals it
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It is typically read by collectors seeking rare, out-of-print or specialist editions.
Common subject areas: rare and out-of-print works.
- Author
- Wellesley, Mary
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781541675087
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Reference
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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