The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The English Novel in the Time of ShakespeareIn the middle of the 16thcentury, the taste for book-collecting had gained a firm hold upon the country. Queen Elizabeth herself was apbibliomaniac, though her passion for books was excelled by Archbishop Cotton, Sir Thomas Bodley, and Dr. John Dee. Books were sumptuously bound and virtuosos were curious in the choice of their clasps and their silk strings, fastidious in the erection of their libraries, nice in their taste for engraved borders, title-pages, and capital initials. The contents of one royal library of the day are knownto us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.