304pp. Black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Bright red endpapers. 8vo. Volume is neat, clean, bright and tight throughout barring two short lines inked in the margins of p263p. In its original dust wrapper, a little shelf worn and lightly bumped on extreme edges, not price clipped.
A collection of essays from leading scholars exploring the possibilities of wider recognition for early literacy studies in Sweden and in the context of Swedish education. Several pay tribute to Egil Johansson and acknowledge the significance of his work on parish registers from northern Sweden to unravel the history of literacy in Sweden.
