The Culture of Collected Editions

by Andrew Nash (Editor)

The phenomenon of the collected edition has made a vital contribution to the construction of authorship, the history of reputation and the formation of the canon. Discussing a range of authors and subjects from Ben Jonson to the Internet, this collection of essays brings together the disciplines of Literary and Cultural Criticism, Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Book and Publishing History, to ignite debate on the influence of famous editions of the past and the significance of present-day collected editions.

286 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Andrew Nash is Reader in Book History and Deputy Director of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, directing there the London Rare Books School. Author of Kailyard and Scottish Literature (2007) and co-editor (with Valentina Bold) of Gateway to the Modern: Resituating J.M. Barrie (2014) and volume 7 of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (2019), he has published extensively on Scottish and Victorian literature and the history of the book since 1800. Another volume,Books, Readers and Libraries in Fiction, co-edited with Karen Attar, was published in 2025.