A companion to the history of the book /
A companion to the history of the book /
History of the book
edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose.
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub., 2007.
- xvi, 599 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
- Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 48 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why bibliography matters / What is textual scholarship? / The uses of quantification / Readers : books and biography / The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / China / Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / South Asia / Latin America / The Hebraic book / The Islamic book / The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / The Gutenberg revolutions / The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / The British book market 1600-1800 / Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / The global market 1970-2000 : producers / The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Periodicals and periodicity / The importance of ephemera / The new textual technologies / New histories of literacy / Some non-textual uses of books / The book as art / Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Copyright and the creation of literary property / Libraries and the invention of information / Does the book have a future? / T.H. Howard-Hill -- David Greetham -- Alexis Weedon -- Stephen Colclough -- Eleanor Robson -- Cornelia Roemer -- J.S. Edgren -- Peter Kornicki -- Graham Shaw -- Hortensia Calvo -- Emile G.L. Schrijver -- Michael Albin -- Michelle P. Brown -- M.T. Clanchy -- Lotte Hellinga -- David J. Shaw -- John Feather -- Rietje van Vliet -- Russell L. Martin III -- Rob Banham -- Simon Eliot -- Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin -- Robert A. Gross -- David Finkelstein -- Jonathan Rose -- Adriaan van der Weel -- Beth Luey -- Paul Luna -- Eva Hemmungs Wirtén -- Claire Squires -- James Wald -- Martin Andrews -- Charles Chadwyck-Healey -- Patricia Crain -- Rowan Watson -- Megan L. Benton -- Deana Heath -- John Feather -- Wayne A. Wiegand -- Angus Phillips.
9781405127653 (alk. paper) 1405127651 (alk. paper)
2006102104
Books--History.
Printing--History.
Book industries and trade--History.
Z4 / .C73 2007
002.09
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why bibliography matters / What is textual scholarship? / The uses of quantification / Readers : books and biography / The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / China / Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / South Asia / Latin America / The Hebraic book / The Islamic book / The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / The Gutenberg revolutions / The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / The British book market 1600-1800 / Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / The global market 1970-2000 : producers / The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Periodicals and periodicity / The importance of ephemera / The new textual technologies / New histories of literacy / Some non-textual uses of books / The book as art / Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Copyright and the creation of literary property / Libraries and the invention of information / Does the book have a future? / T.H. Howard-Hill -- David Greetham -- Alexis Weedon -- Stephen Colclough -- Eleanor Robson -- Cornelia Roemer -- J.S. Edgren -- Peter Kornicki -- Graham Shaw -- Hortensia Calvo -- Emile G.L. Schrijver -- Michael Albin -- Michelle P. Brown -- M.T. Clanchy -- Lotte Hellinga -- David J. Shaw -- John Feather -- Rietje van Vliet -- Russell L. Martin III -- Rob Banham -- Simon Eliot -- Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin -- Robert A. Gross -- David Finkelstein -- Jonathan Rose -- Adriaan van der Weel -- Beth Luey -- Paul Luna -- Eva Hemmungs Wirtén -- Claire Squires -- James Wald -- Martin Andrews -- Charles Chadwyck-Healey -- Patricia Crain -- Rowan Watson -- Megan L. Benton -- Deana Heath -- John Feather -- Wayne A. Wiegand -- Angus Phillips.
9781405127653 (alk. paper) 1405127651 (alk. paper)
2006102104
Books--History.
Printing--History.
Book industries and trade--History.
Z4 / .C73 2007
002.09