Natasha Glaisyer and Sara Pennell
Ashgate
Hardback
226
2003
Ranging from music to astronomy gardening to the Bible this essay collection is the first multi-disciplinary volume to examine a kind of text that was a staple of early modern English publishing: the how-to book. It tackles a wide range of subjects everything from grammars music books gardening manuals to teach-yourself book-keeping while highlighting the commonalities of diverse texts as didactic works and situating this material in wider intellectual and material contexts.