Publication by Subscription
Clapp, Sarah L. C. “The Beginnings of Subscription Publication in the Seventeenth Century.” Modern Philology 29, no. 2 (1931): 199–224.
Kastan, David. “Print, Literary Culture and the Book Trade.” In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, edited by David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, 81–116. The New Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521631563.005.
Parry, Graham. “Patronage and the Printing of Learned Works for the Author.” In The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: Volume 4: 1557–1695, edited by D. F. McKenzie and John Barnard, 4:174–88. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521661829.009.
Raven, James. “Publishing and Bookselling 1660–1780.” In The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780, edited by John Richetti, 11–36. The New Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521781442.003.
Wallis, Peter John, Ruth Wallis, Francis John Gibson Robinson, and Book Subscriptions Lists Project. Book Subscription Lists: A Revised Guide. Newcastle upon Tyne: PHIBB, 1996.
Society and Literacy in Early Modern England
Charlton, Kenneth, and Margaret Spufford. “Literacy, Society and Education.” In The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature, edited by David Loewenstein and Janel Mueller, 13–54. The New Cambridge History of English Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHOL9780521631563.003.
Sanders, Eve Rachele, and Margaret W. Ferguson. “Literacies in Early Modern England.” Critical Survey 14, no. 1 (2002): 1–8.
Wrightson, Keith, ed. A Social History of England, 1500–1750. A Social History of England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107300835.
Women and Book Culture
Brayman Hackel, Heidi, and Catherine E. Kelly. Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800. Material Texts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.
Knight, Leah, Micheline White, and Elizabeth Sauer, eds. Women’s Bookscapes in Early Modern Britain. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2018. https://www.press.umich.edu/9901165/womens_bookscapes_in_early_modern_britain.
Smith, Helen. “Grossly Material Things”: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England. Oxford: University Press, 2012.
Notable Bibliophiles
Asch, Ronald G. "Wentworth, Thomas, first earl of Strafford (1593–1641), lord lieutenant of Ireland." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 12 Apr. 2023. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-29056.
Hunter, Michael. "Ashmole, Elias (1617–1692), astrologer and antiquary." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 12 Apr. 2023. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-764.
Norbrook, David. "Hutchinson [née Apsley], Lucy (1620–1681), poet and biographer." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 12 Apr. 2023. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-14285.
Peltonen, Markku. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626), lord chancellor, politician, and philosopher," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 12 Apr. 2023. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-990.
Digital Projects
Middling Culture: The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort, Writing and Material Culture, 1560-1660.
Private Libraries in Renaissance England