The Irish book in English, 1550-1800 / edited by Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Raymond Gillespie and Andrew Hadfield -- Print culture, 1550-1700 / Raymond Gillespie -- Print culture, 1700-1800 / Toby Barnard -- The print trade, 1550-1700 / Colm Lennon -- The print trade, 1700-1800 / Colm Lennon -- Libraries and collectors, 1550-1700 / Elizabethanne Boran -- Libraries and collectors, 1700-1800 / Toby Barnard -- Reading print, 1550-1700 / Raymond Gillespie -- Reading print, 1700-1800 / Máire Kennedy -- Religious change, 1550-1800 / Thomas O'Connor -- Political publishing, 1550-1700 / James Kelly -- Political publishing, 1700-1800 / James Kelly -- Politics and print : a case study / Allan Blackstock -- Historical writing, 1550-1660 / Andrew Hadfield -- Historical writing, 1660-1750 / Bernadette Cunningham -- Historical writing, 1750-1800 / Deana Rankin -- Literature in print, 1550-1800 / Andrew Carpenter -- Theatre and print, 1550-1800 / Christopher Morash -- Science, 1550-1800 / Siobhán Fitzpatrick -- Foreign language books, 1550-1700 / Mary Ann Lyons -- Foreign language books, 1700-1800 / Máire Kennedy -- Sources for the history of the early modern book in Ireland / Raymond Gillespie

Part of a series providing an authoritative history of the book in early modern Ireland, this volume contains essays by 15 leading scholars that seek to explain the fortunes of printed word from the early Renaissance to the end of the 18th century.