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A companion to the history of the book / edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 102.
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 100
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--History.
- Books.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- Book industries and trade--History.
- Book industries and trade.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (975 pages).
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken, New Jersey ; Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, [2020]
- Summary:
- The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography. The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions delve into such fascinating topics as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781119018209
- 111901820X
- 9781119018216
- 1119018218
- 9781119018193
- 1119018196
- OCLC:
- 1099543594
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