A companion to the history of the book
By: edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose
Contributors: Eliot, Simon; Rose, Jonathan, 1952-
Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture -- 48
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 599
ISBN-13: 9781405127653
Subjects: Books -- History; Printing -- History; Book industries and trade -- History
Other titles: History of the book
Description: From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Why bibliography matters / T.H. Howard-Hill; title: What is textual scholarship? / David Greetham; title: The uses of quantification / Alexis Weedon; title: Readers : books and biography / Stephen Colclough; title: The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia / Eleanor Robson; title: The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome / Cornelia Roemer; title: China / J.S. Edgren; title: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Peter Kornicki; title: South Asia / Graham Shaw; title: Latin America / Hortensia Calvo; title: The Hebraic book / Emile G.L. Schrijver; title: The Islamic book / Michael Albin; title: The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 / Michelle P. Brown; title: Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 / M.T. Clanchy; title: The Gutenberg revolutions / Lotte Hellinga; title: The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century / David J. Shaw; title: The British book market 1600-1800 / John Feather; title: Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 / Rietje van Vliet; title: North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / Russell L. Martin III; title: The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 / Rob Banham; title: From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / Simon Eliot; title: A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 / Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin; title: Building a national literature : the United States 1800-1890 / Robert A. Gross; title: The globalization of the book 1800-1970 / David Finkelstein; title: Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 / Jonathan Rose; title: Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 / Adriaan van der Weel; title: Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Beth Luey; title: Books and bits : texts and technology 1970-2000 / Paul Luna; title: The global market 1970-2000 : producers / Eva Hemmungs Wirtén; title: The global market 1970-2000 : consumers / Claire Squires; title: Periodicals and periodicity / James Wald; title: The importance of ephemera / Martin Andrews; title: The new textual technologies / Charles Chadwyck-Healey; title: New histories of literacy / Patricia Crain; title: Some non-textual uses of books / Rowan Watson; title: The book as art / Megan L. Benton; title: Obscenity, censorship, and modernity / Deana Heath; title: Copyright and the creation of literary property / John Feather; title: Libraries and the invention of information / Wayne A. Wiegand; title: Does the book have a future? / Angus Phillips