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Thomas Hacket and the Ventures of an Elizabethan Publisher.

This essay considers the life and career of Thomas Hacket, bookseller who worked in London between 1556 and 1590. Along with publishing a number of his own translations, Hacket financed many significant texts during his three decades as a stationer: among them, the first English translation of Ovid’...

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Published in:Library Vol. 10; no. 3; pp. 257 - 272
Main Author: Melnikoff, Kirk
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA Sep2009
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