Description: Presents exciting new research on the key book collectors, authors and genres which rose and fell in popularity across the medieval and early modern period in Scotland.
Brief description: Daryl Green is Associate Director for Heritage Collections and Co-Director of the Centre for Research Collections at the University of Edinburgh. Daryl has worked professionally with manuscripts and early printed books at York Minster Library, the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), the University of St Andrews and Oxford. He has published on early Scottish book ownership, the history of science communication and on professional topics such as exhibition theory and image rights.
Review Quotes: This collection wonderfully captures Scotland's vibrant reading cultures, from the people who patronised book production, to the founding of libraries, to the genres encountered by readers. A must for every historian's bookshelf.--Laura Stewart, University of York