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A companion to the history of the book

A companion to the history of the book
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ISBN 9781405192781 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405127653 (hbk. : alk. paper)
Title A companion to the history of the book / edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose
Edition Paperback ed.
Publisher Chichester, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Physical desc. xvi, 599 p. ; ill. (b&w), map ; 25 cm.
Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture 48
Note Originally published in hardback (Malden, MA ; Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents Introduction / Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose. -- Pt. 1: Methods and approaches: Why bibliography matters / T.H. Howard-Hill. -- What is textual scholarship? / David Greetham. -- The uses of quantification / Alexis Weedon. -- Readers: books and biography / Stephen Colclough. -- Pt. 2: The history of the material text: the world before the codex: The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson. -- The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / Cornelia Roemer. -- The book beyond the West: China / J.S. Edgren. -- Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Peter Kornicki. -- South Asia / Graham Shaw. -- Latin America / Hortensia Calvo. -- The Hebraic book / Emile G.L. Schrijver. -- The Islamic book / Michael Albin. -- The codex in the West 400-2000: The triumph of the codex: the manuscript book before 1100 / Michelle P. Brown. -- Parchment and paper: manuscript culture 1100-1500 / M.T. Clanchy. -- The Gutenberg revolutions / Lotte Hellinga. -- The book trade comes of age: the sixteenth century / David J. Shaw. -- The British book market 1600-1800 / John Feather. -- Print and public in Europe 1600-1800. -- North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / Russell L. Martin III. -- The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / From few and expensive to many and cheap: the British book market 1800-1890 / Simon Eliot. -- A continent of texts: Europe 1800-1890 / Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin. -- Building a national literature: the United States 1800-1890 / Robert A. Gross. -- The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / David Finkelstein. -- Modernity and print I: Britain 1890-1970 / Jonathan Rose. -- Modernity and print II: Europe 1890-1970 / Adriaan van der Weel. -- Modernity and print III: the United States 1890-1970 / Beth Luey. -- Books and bits: texts and technology 1970-2000 / Paul Luna. -- The global market 1970-2000: producers / Eva Hemmings Wirtén. -- The global market 1970-2000: consumers / Claire Squires. -- Pt. 3: Beyond the book: Periodicals and periodicity / James Wald. -- The importance of ephemera / Martin Andrews. -- The new textual technologies / Charles Chadwyck-Healey. -- Pt. 4: Issues: New histories of literacy / Patricia Crain. -- Some non-textual uses of books / Rowan Watson. -- The book as art / Megan L. Benton. -- Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Deana Heath. -- Copyright and the creation of literary property / John Feather. -- Libraries and the invention of information / Wayne A. Wiegand. -- Coda: Does the book have a future? / Angus Phillips.
Subject Books -- History
Printing -- History
Book industries and trade -- History
Added name(s) Eliot, Simon ed.
Rose, Jonathan 1952- ed.
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