The Order of Books
Subtitle: Readers, Authors and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries
Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
Published: December 9, 1993
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780745610986
Subjects: Bibliographic & subject control
First sentence: Far from being writers - founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders of houses - readers are travellers; they move across lands belonging to someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not write, despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves.