This book is a major study of child readers and their reading habits in the period when children's literature first became established.

How did the 'flat' characters of eighteenth-century children's literature become 'round' by the mid-nineteenth? While previous critics have pointed to literary

'This book presents a rigorous, hugely informative analysis of the early history of Dutch children’s literature, pedagogical developments and emerging family

The essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in

Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate an