“Ungainefull Arte”: Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era. Richard A. McCabe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiv + 376 pp. $110.
tories produced by early printers” (169). The differences rather than continuities between scribal and print culture are brought to the fore in this final chapter as Tonry advances a carefully nuanced argument about how “the logic of print” (209) seems to have inflected the development of historiographical modes. Agency and Intention in English Print draws fresh attention to a number of littleknown texts and early editions. As Tonry herself puts it, it is a work that peers into “the neglected corners and crannies of early English print” (16) to offer a range of new insights. It will undoubtedly prove useful to those researching the earliest decades of English print culture, especially those scholars with interests in the production and circulation of religious books or the intersections between England’s first printers and London’s mercantile classes.