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This monograph makes clear how the format of the literary folio played a fundamental role in book history by encapsulating the unstable negotiation between commerce, cultural prestige, and the fundamental nature of the printed book.

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1. Samuel Daniel´s Works and the History of the Book 2. Ben Jonson´s Workes 3. John Taylor and the Commercial Folio

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"Francis Connor´s detailed and well-researched monograph therefore charts the publication of literary folios from the private, elite coteries to the public, commercial sphere; through this progression, ideas of the book evolved and were negotiated in early modern England-indeed, the chapter divisions reflect this. ... Connor´s monograph adds to the significant corpus of book-history research ... ." (Jocelyn Hargrave, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 68 (4), 2015)

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Francis X. Connor is an Assistant Professor of English at Wichita State University, USA.

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