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A potencie of life: books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987

A potencie of life: books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987
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ISBN 0712347208
Title A potencie of life : books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987
Edition 2nd ed.
Publisher London ; New Castle : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, 2001
Physical desc. vi, 206 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Series The British Library studies in the history of the book
Contents Introduction / Nicolas Barker. -- A new model for the study of the book / Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker. -- The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris / R.H. and M.A. Rouse. -- The codex in the fifteenth century: manuscript and print / Lotte Hellinga. -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 / John Bidwell. -- Bookbinding and the history of books / Mirjam M. Foot. -- The 'Trade of authorship' in eighteenth-century maritime books / Thomas R. Adams. -- Libraries and the mind of man / Nicolas Barker. -- Appendix: intentionality and reception theory.
Subject Books -- History
Added name(s) Barker, Nicolas ed.
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