Aaron T. Pratt
I am a PhD candidate in English literature at Yale University, with particular interests in early modern literature, bibliography, and media history. (I have a major side interest in the history of home video.) I also run a small business selling antiquarian books, mostly those printed before 1700 and written in English or by English authors. My books have found homes with major research institutions, private collectors, and other dealers. I teach in the classroom, and I also aim to teach with my catalog listings.
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30 May 2021
The other day, I presented to a group of The Bibliographical Society of America‘s very generous donors about four copies of the earliest known quarto edition of Christopher Marlowe’s...
Sometimes You Want Your Blank Blank
2 April 2020
From the outside, this looks like a standard parchment binding. As the inscription on the cover indicates, it brings together two different titles. Yes, it’s what book types call...
The Trouble with Translation (w/ Errata)
28 June 2018
2011 marked the quadricentennial of the King James Bible’s first edition, and it saw the publication of entirely too many books and essays on English Bibles. For one of these,...
23 August 2016
“Shakespeare, The Book” will be held at Trinity University in San Antonio on Friday, September 30th. It will meet in the Special Collections space in Trinity’s Coates...