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Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830

Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830
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ISBN 0521618525 (pbk.)
9780521618526 (pbk.)
Author McKitterick, David
Title Print, manuscript and the search for order, 1450-1830 / [by] David McKitterick
Publisher Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
Physical desc. xv, 311 p. ; ill. (b&w) ; 25 cm.
Note Third printing 2006
Author's expanded version of the Lyell lectures in bibliography, delivered at the University of Oxford in May 2000.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-302) and indexes
Contents The printed word and the modern bibliographer -- Dependent skills -- Pictures in motley -- A house of errors -- Perfect and imperfect -- The art of printing -- Re-evaluation: towards the modern book -- Machinery and manufacture -- Instabilities: the inherent and the deliberate.
Subject Books -- Europe -- History
Printing -- Europe -- History
Early printed books -- Europe -- Bibliography
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