History of the Book in Canada: Volume One
Subtitle: Beginnings to 1840
Contributors: Patricia Lockhart Fleming (Editor); Gillies Gallichan (Editor); Yvan Lamonde (Editor)
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: August 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780802089434
Subjects: Publishing industry; History: World; Canada; Books; Printing; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History; Canada - General; Books & Reading; Canada - Pre-Confederation (to 1867); Canadian; History / Canada; Book industries and trade; Books and reading
First sentence: It is a common assumption that there is a correlation between the rise of organized knowledge and the development of some adequate form of writing, which, in turn, is assumed to require phonetic articulation.