TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eliot,Simon
AU  - Rose,Jonathan
TI  - A companion to the history of the book
T2  - Blackwell companions to literature and culture
SN  - 9781405192781
AV  - Z4 .C73 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Books
KW  - History
KW  - Printing
N1  - Originally published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 --; The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia; Eleanor Robson --; The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome; Cornelia Roemer --; 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 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; Rietje van Vliet --; North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800; Russell L. Martin III --; The industrialization of the book 1800-1970; Rob Banham --; 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 Hemmungs Wirtén --; The global market 1970-2000 : consumers; Claire Squires --; Periodicals and periodicity; James Wald --; The importance of ephemera; Martin Andrews --; The new textual technologies; Charles Chadwyck-Healey --; 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 --; Does the book have a future?; Angus Phillips
N2  - From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. --from publisher description
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