The word Canto means so many things, but they are all related either to a praise to something that deserves a vocal or poetic form, or the edge and cut of an object. A book, most of the time, contains the poetic and the cut, and sometimes, as monks and reciters know, the voice.
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This thesis provides a chronological narrative of the major trends in the history of rebinding incunabula. There is currently very little academic literature that focuses on the practice of rebinding as a subset of book history, largely because it is regarded in bibliographic ci…
The nineteenth century saw a significant shift in how books were produced. Industrialization and the emergence of a mass reading public, whose members also had increased leisure time and money, led to the need for less expensive books than those bound by individual readers. Publ…