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  1. <<A>> companion to the history of the book
    Contributor: Eliot, Simon (Verfasser, Herausgeber); Rose, Jonathan (Verfasser, Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ

    The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expandedThe revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book's history, through print and electronic text.... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expandedThe revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book's history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography.The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today's burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions also delve into the fascinating accounts of topics such as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Eliot, Simon (Verfasser, Herausgeber); Rose, Jonathan (Verfasser, Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781119018179
    Edition: 2nd edition
    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 102
    Subjects: Literature; Literaturwissenschaft
    Other subjects: Literaturwissenschaft; Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 2 Bände
    Notes:

    Introduction; Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose; Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers; 1 Bibliography; Tony Edwards; 2 Textual Scholarship; Dirk Van Hulle; 3 The Uses of Quantification; Alexis Weedon; 4 Palaeography and Codicology; Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson; 5 Paper; Maureen Green; 6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer; Caroline Archer-Parré; 7 Printing to 1970; Rob Banham; 8 Binding; Nicholas Pickwoad; 9 Archives and Paperwork; Elizabeth Yale; 10 New Histories of Literacy; Patricia Crain; 11 Readers: Books and Biography; Stephen Colclough and Edmund King; Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East; 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia; Eleanor Robson; 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome; Cornelia Römer; 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100; Michelle P. Brown; 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100-1500; M. T. Clanchy; Part III The Book in the Wider World; 16 China; J. S.-

    Edgren; 17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam; Peter Kornicki; 18 South Asia; Graham Shaw; 19 Latin America; Hortensia Calvo; 20 The Hebraic Book; Emile G. L. Schrijver; 21 Books in Arabic Script; Dagmar A. Riedel; 22 The Slavic Book; Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia; 23 Africa; Elizabeth le Roux; 24 Canada and Australasia; Alison Rukavina; Part IV The Printed Book Predominant; 25 The Gutenberg Revolutions; Lotte Hellinga; 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century; David J. Shaw; 27 The British Book Market 1600-1800; John Feather; 28 Print and Public in Europe 1600-1800; Rietje van Vliet; 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800; Russell L. Martin III; 30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800-1970; Rob Banham; 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890; Simon Eliot; 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800-1890; Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin; 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890; Robert A.-

    Gross and Matt Cohen; 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970; David Finkelstein; 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970; Jonathan Rose; 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970; Adriaan van der Weel; 37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890-1970; Beth Luey; 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014; Paul Luna; 39 The Global Market 1970-2014: Producers; Iain Stevenson; 40 The Global Market 1970-2014: Consumers; Claire Squires; Part V Extending Print; 41 Periodicals and Periodicity; James Wald; 42 The Importance of Ephemera; Henry Raine; 43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books; Rowan Watson; 44 The Book as Art; Jae Jennifer Rossman; 45 The New Textual Technologies; Elena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes; 46 Scientific Publishing; Aileen Fyfe; 47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle Ages; Peter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith,-

    and Sarah Tyacke; 48 Music and Print; Rupert Ridgewell; Part VI Consequences; 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property; John Feather; 50 The Common Writer; Martyn Lyons; 51 The Profession of Authorship; Robert Griffin; 52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language; Donna Farina; 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity; Deana Heath; 54 Book Collectors and Collections; Eric J. Holzenberg; 55 Libraries and the Invention of Information; Wayne A. Wiegand; Coda; 56 Does the Book Have a Future?; Angus Phillips

  2. A companion to the history of the book
    Contributor: Eliot, Simon (Herausgeber, Verfasser); Rose, Jonathan (Herausgeber, Verfasser)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Wiley Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ

    The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expandedThe revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book's history, through print and electronic text.... more

    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Münster
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expandedThe revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book's history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography.The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today's burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions also delve into the fascinating accounts of topics such as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Eliot, Simon (Herausgeber, Verfasser); Rose, Jonathan (Herausgeber, Verfasser)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781119018179
    Edition: 2nd edition
    Series: Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 102
    Subjects: Buchhandel; Buchdruck; Buch
    Other subjects: Literaturwissenschaft; Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Literature; Literaturwissenschaft
    Scope: 2 Bände
    Notes:

    Introduction; Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose; Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers; 1 Bibliography; Tony Edwards; 2 Textual Scholarship; Dirk Van Hulle; 3 The Uses of Quantification; Alexis Weedon; 4 Palaeography and Codicology; Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson; 5 Paper; Maureen Green; 6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer; Caroline Archer-Parré; 7 Printing to 1970; Rob Banham; 8 Binding; Nicholas Pickwoad; 9 Archives and Paperwork; Elizabeth Yale; 10 New Histories of Literacy; Patricia Crain; 11 Readers: Books and Biography; Stephen Colclough and Edmund King; Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East; 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia; Eleanor Robson; 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome; Cornelia Römer; 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100; Michelle P. Brown; 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100-1500; M. T. Clanchy; Part III The Book in the Wider World; 16 China; J. S.-

    Edgren; 17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam; Peter Kornicki; 18 South Asia; Graham Shaw; 19 Latin America; Hortensia Calvo; 20 The Hebraic Book; Emile G. L. Schrijver; 21 Books in Arabic Script; Dagmar A. Riedel; 22 The Slavic Book; Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia; 23 Africa; Elizabeth le Roux; 24 Canada and Australasia; Alison Rukavina; Part IV The Printed Book Predominant; 25 The Gutenberg Revolutions; Lotte Hellinga; 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century; David J. Shaw; 27 The British Book Market 1600-1800; John Feather; 28 Print and Public in Europe 1600-1800; Rietje van Vliet; 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800; Russell L. Martin III; 30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800-1970; Rob Banham; 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890; Simon Eliot; 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800-1890; Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin; 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890; Robert A.-

    Gross and Matt Cohen; 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970; David Finkelstein; 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970; Jonathan Rose; 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970; Adriaan van der Weel; 37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890-1970; Beth Luey; 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014; Paul Luna; 39 The Global Market 1970-2014: Producers; Iain Stevenson; 40 The Global Market 1970-2014: Consumers; Claire Squires; Part V Extending Print; 41 Periodicals and Periodicity; James Wald; 42 The Importance of Ephemera; Henry Raine; 43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books; Rowan Watson; 44 The Book as Art; Jae Jennifer Rossman; 45 The New Textual Technologies; Elena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes; 46 Scientific Publishing; Aileen Fyfe; 47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle Ages; Peter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith,-

    and Sarah Tyacke; 48 Music and Print; Rupert Ridgewell; Part VI Consequences; 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property; John Feather; 50 The Common Writer; Martyn Lyons; 51 The Profession of Authorship; Robert Griffin; 52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language; Donna Farina; 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity; Deana Heath; 54 Book Collectors and Collections; Eric J. Holzenberg; 55 Libraries and the Invention of Information; Wayne A. Wiegand; Coda; 56 Does the Book Have a Future?; Angus Phillips