E-book vendors continue to experiment: adjustments to business models, consolidation of content, and mergers with competitors mean constant change.
"This reference book contains over 450 alphabetical entries ranging in length from a single line to several pages. Each entry consists of a definition and analysis of the technical terms of book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with comments on such subjects as auctions…
This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European…
This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a model of textual dissemination and the material and economic premises of European…
Boyer's (history, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) first edition of this work, published in 1968, chronicling censorship from the 19th century through the 1930s, is presented here essentially unchanged. New to this edition are chapters extending the book's scope to the present, with to…
The first edition of Purity in Print documented book censorship in America from the 1870s to the 1930s, embedding it within the larger social and cultural history of the time. In this second edition, Boyer adds two new chapters carrying his history forward to the beginning of th…
A practical introduction to typography, this book analyzes the basic principles and applications of type.
A practical introduction to typography, this book analyzes the basic principles and applications of type.
This catalogue features etchings, engravings, and woodcuts in the Metropolitan Museum's collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
This catalogue features etchings, engravings, and woodcuts in the Metropolitan Museum's collection. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied very heavily on books to help it develop and gain momentum. Without a way of defining and categorizing the many thousands of species of plants and animals, the subject could not exist as it does tod…
