Book History and Print Culture
Ashgate’s commitment to the History of the Book harkens back to
the 1980s, with the publication of numerous studies of medieval
manuscripts and other ‘books about books’ under our Scolar Press
and Variorum imprints. When Scolar Press
merged with the general Ashgate imprint in the mid-1990s, Ashgate
and Variorum continued to publish important book history titles
such as M.B. Parkes’s Pause and
Effect (originally a Scolar Press title) and Pages from the
Past: Medieval Manuscript Skills and Writing Books, J.A.
Szirmai’s The Archaeology of
Medieval Bookbinding, and Douglas Martin’s translation of
Albert Kapr’s Johann Gutenberg:
The Man and His Invention, among many others. More recent
publications, for example, Michael Hunter’s Printed Images in
Early Modern Britain, Patrick Collier’s Modernism on Fleet
Street, and Marilyn Deegan and Kathryn Sutherland’s
Transferred
Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print,
reflect the expansion of book history scholarship into all
varieties of print culture, the history of the author, and new
media, including the digital
humanities.
Following are Ashgate series devoted to the History of the Book
and Print Culture:
Book History is also well-represented in several of our other
series and in our general humanities lists. The following are just
a sampling:
A comprehensive list of our published and forthcoming
titles can be found here:
To submit a proposal or to learn more about Ashgate and Book
History, please contact one of our Humanities editors:
We look forward to hearing from you!