The Cambridge companion to the history of the book /
"Throughout human history the world's knowledge, and fruits of the creative imagination, have been produced, circulated and received through the medium of the material text. This Companion provides a wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from...
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Cambridge ; New York :
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2015.
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Table of Contents:
- The study of book history / Leslie Howsam
- Part I, Book cultures, local, national and global: Books in the library / Karen Attar
- Books in the nation / Trish Loughran
- Books in global perspectives / Sydney Shep
- Part II, The material book and the mutable text: Materials and meanings / Peter Stoicheff
- Handwriting and the book / Margaret J.M. Ezell
- The coming of print to Europe / Adrian Johns
- The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe / Cyndia Clegg
- The industrial revolution of the book / James Raven
- The book in the long twentieth century / Alistair McCleery
- The digital book / Jon Bath and Scott Schofield
- Part III, Methods, sources and approaches to the history of the book: Book history from descriptive bibliographies / Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
- Book history from the archival record / Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne
- Book history in the reading experience / Mary Hammond
- Book history in the classroom / Leslie Howsam.