Mark Bland

Areas of research and publication: early printed books and manuscripts; the London book-trade 1560-1640; the Poems of Ben Jonson; the manuscript transmission of verse in the early-mid seventeenth century; Italian paper in early modern England; the printing-house of John Windet and William Stansby (the Cross-Keys) ,1584-1636; Stationers' wives; book-trade wills. Forthcoming book: The World of Simon Waterson, Stationer.