Resumen de The Press and the People: Cheap Print & Society in Scotland, 1500–1785.

Marian Toledo Candelaria (res.)

• Early modern book history in Scotland has focused primarily on the publication of texts by and for Scotland’s intellectual élite. Scotland eventually emerged, as it is often argued, as the most literate society in Europe at the time. Such an accomplishment is remarkable considering how relatively late the printing press was introduced in Scotland: Walter Chapman and Androw Myllar established the first press in 1507 at the instruction of James IV. Although cheap prints and popular literature were the “bread and butter” of Scottish printers in the early modern era, no study of their survival and impact on Scottish book trade had previously been published. Adam Fox’s The Press and the People fills this lacuna in an admirable manner, being the only large-scale survey of Scottish popular and ephemeral literature production to date.