The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain
This is the first history of the book in Britain from the Norman Conquest until the early fifteenth century. The twenty-six expert contributors to this volume discuss the manuscript book from a variety of angles: as physical object (manufacture, format, writing and decoration); …
"In this irreverent analysis of the book industry, John Maxwell Hamilton provides a rich history of the book - from the days when monks laboriously hand-copied texts to the recent tidal wave of Titanic tie-ins - and gives an overview of the state of the industry today, including…
Wörterbuch des Verlagswesens in 20 Sprachen
Met reg. Study on how and why people did understand texts as they did in modern France. The author discusses printing, publishing, literacy, schooling, criticism and censorship, to study the social, cultural, economic and political forces that shaped French interpretive practice.