...This chapter discusses the uses to which manuscripts and printed books were put in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the changing histories and critical traditions that have accounted for them, beginning with the place of Caxton, Pynson, and de Worde in the early English printing trade...

... and alliterative verse. Caxton’s successor, Wynkyn de Worde, expanded Caxton’s poetic list, adding many romance texts. Richard Pynson continued to expand the list of English poetic offerings, and was important for transmitting contemporary as well as older verse texts. The chapter explores how paratextual features...

.... While the printing press initiated significant changes in the publication and presentation of Virgil’s texts, readers’ intellectual approaches remained consistent with earlier, well-established procedures of grammatical and rhetorical pedagogy. The second half of the chapter discusses Richard Pynson’s...