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'Waste Paper in Early Modern England' argues that rhetorical commonplaces referring to waste paper are indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets.

"The chapters in this volume grew out of the first conference devoted solely to the trade of paper. The speakers and attendees met in Erlangen, Germany, in February 2019 [...]. [...] The conference was generously sponsored by the German Research Association (DFG) and by the 'Freundeskreis der Erlanger Buchwissenschaft' at the Institute for the Study of the Book (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), and the conference posters were printed on beautiful sheets of handmade paper bearing watermarks, produced by Matthias Schwethelm in his 'Papieroffizin' in Fürth." (Preface, Seite [IX])