A potencie of life
Subtitle: books in society : the Clark lectures, 1986-1987
By: edited by Nicolas Barker.
Contributors: Barker, Nicolas.
Series: The British Library studies in the history of the book
Publisher: British Library; Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New Castle, DE
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Books -- History.; Book industries and trade -- History.; Books and reading -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA.
Originally published: London : British Library, 1993.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A new model for the study of the book; title: The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris; title: The codex in the fifteenth century : manuscript and print; title: American papermakers and the panic of 1819; title: Bookbinding and the history of books; title: The "trade of authorship" in eighteenth-century Britain; title: Mount and Page : publishers of eighteenth-century maritime books; title: Libraries and the mind of man; title: Appendix; title: Index.