The Cambridge companion to the history of the book
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- ISBN: 9781107023734 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
print - Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references, chronology, glossary, and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Chronology -- 1. The study of book history / Leslie Howsam -- Part I. Book Cultures, Local, National and Global -- 2. Books in the library / Karen Attar -- 3. Books in the nation / Trish Loughran -- 4. Books in global perspectives / Sydney Shep -- Part II. The Material Book and the Mutable Text -- 5. Materials and meanings / Peter Stoicheff -- 6. Handwriting and the book / Margaret J. M. Ezell -- 7. The coming of print to Europe / Adrian Johns -- 8. The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe / Cyndia Clegg -- 9. The industrial revolution of the book / James Raven -- 10. The book in the long twentieth century / Alistair McCleery -- 11. The digital book / Jon Bath and Scott Schofield -- Part III. Methods, Sources and Approaches to the History of the Book -- 12. Book history from descriptive bibliographies / Michael F. Suarez, S.J. -- 13. Book history from the archival record / Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne -- 14. Book history in the reading experience / Mary Hammond -- 15. Book history in the classroom / Leslie Howsam -- Glossary of technical terms -- Guide to further reading. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Thompson Campus Library | Z 4 .C26 2015 (Text) | 58500001255306 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |