The Book: A Global History

A concise version of the hugely acclaimed Oxford significant other to the Book, this booklet positive factors the fifty one articles from the Companion plus three fresh chapters in a cheap structure! The fifty four chapters introduce readers to the attention-grabbing global of publication historical past. together with 21 thematic stories on subject matters comparable to writing platforms, the traditional and the medieval ebook, and the economics of print, in addition to 33 neighborhood and nationwide histories, providing a very international survey of the e-book world wide, The e-book: a world History is the main accomplished paintings of its sort. the 3 new articles, specifically commissioned for this variation, conceal censorship, copyright and highbrow estate, and ebook heritage within the Caribbean and Bermuda.

All essays are illustrated all through with reproductions, diagrams, and examples of varied typographical beneficial properties.
Beautifully produced and hugely informative, this can be a must-have for a person with an curiosity in publication background and the written word.

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We current those essays within the desire that they are going to engender in various readerships from around the world extra capacious understandings of books and their attention-grabbing histories. MICHAEL F. SUAREZ, S. J. H. R. WOUDHUYSEN Charlottesville and Oxford eleven March 2013 Editors and members Editors and individuals normal Editors Michael F. Suarez, S. J. is college Professor and Director of infrequent ebook university at collage of Virginia. he's co-editor of The Cambridge historical past of the booklet in Britain, quantity V, 1695–1830 (2009), co-general editor of The accrued Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, eight vols (2006–), and editor-in-chief of Oxford Scholarly variations on-line (oxfordscholarlyeditions. com). H. R. Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln collage, Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has edited The Penguin e-book of Renaissance Verse (1992) with David Norbrook; Love’s Labour’s misplaced (1998) and, with Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare’s Poems (2007) for the Arden Shakespeare 3rd sequence. His ebook Sir Philip Sidney and the move of Manuscripts, 1558–1640 used to be released in 1996. participants Charlotte Appel is Assistant Professor of early sleek heritage at Roskilde college, Denmark. Her vital learn pursuits are the historical past of books, studying, and schooling, in addition to church background. Scott E. Casper is Professor of background, college of Nevada, Reno, the place he reviews and teaches 19th-century American heritage. he's the writer of Sarah Johnson’s Mount Vernon: The Forgotten historical past of an American Shrine (2008) and co-editor of A historical past of the publication in the US, quantity three, the commercial ebook, 1840–1880 (2007). Daven Christopher Chamberlain acquired levels in Chemistry (Bath) and Paper Physics (Manchester). He labored at Arjowiggins examine and improvement for seventeen years, first as a learn scientist, later as Head of checking out and Printing. presently he's editor of The Quarterly (Journal of the British organization of Paper Historians) and of Paper know-how (Journal of the Paper Technical Association). Brian Cummings is Anniversary Professor of English on the college of York. he's the writer of The Literary tradition of the Reformation: Grammar and beauty (2002) and Mortal suggestions: faith, Secularity, and identification in Shakespeare and Early sleek tradition (2013), in addition to the editor of The ebook of universal Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (2011). Christopher de Hamel is Donnelley Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi collage, Cambridge. He was once for a few years accountable for revenues of illuminated manuscripts at Sotheby’s. He has released very widely on medieval manuscripts and publication creditors. Jeremy B. Dibbell is Librarian for infrequent Books and Social Media at LibraryThing, the place he's head of the Libraries of Early the United States undertaking. he's additionally at paintings on a background of the ebook in Bermuda. Cristina Dondi is the Secretary of the Consortium of ecu examine Libraries (CERL), a member of the historical past and of the fashionable Languages school of the collage of Oxford, and one of many editors of of incunabula of the Bodleian Library.

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