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This essay collection is a multi-disciplinary volume of 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.
Ranging from music to astronomy, gardening to the Bible, this essay collection is a multi-disciplinary volume of 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.
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