| Edition |
Verso ed. |
| Description |
378 pages : maps ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
Translation of L'apparition du livre. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Preliminaries: The introduction of paper into Europe -- The progress of paper -- Preconditions of the growth of paper-making: Natural and industrial -- Commercial factors -- The coming of printing and the development of the paper industry -- 2. The technical problems and their solution -- The wood-cut, ancestor of the book? -- The 'discovery' of printing -- The making of the type -- Composition and impression -- Imposition -- The Chinese precedent -- 3. The book: Its visual appearance -- Type founts -- Inside the book: Title page, colophon and printer's mark -- The text and format of the book -- Illustration -- Clothing the book: The binding -- 4. The book as a commodity -- Costs -- The problem of finance -- 5. The little world of the book -- The journeymen -- The masters -- From the humanist printer to the bookseller of the Enlightenment -- Authors and their rights -- 6. The geography of the book -- The journeys of printers -- Places to set up business -- Geography and publishing -- Printing conquers the world -- a. The Slav countries: Bohemia and Moravia ; Poland ; The Southern Slavs ; Russia -- b. The New World -- c. The Far East -- 7. The book trade -- Some basic data: sizes of editions -- Some problems for the trade -- Business methods at the time of the book-fairs -- Towards new business methods -- Privilege and piracy -- Censorship and banned books -- 8. The book as a force for change -- From manuscript to printed book -- Humanism and the book -- The book and the Reformation -- Printing and language. |
| Subject |
Books -- History.
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Printing -- History.
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Books. (OCoLC)fst00836401
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Printing. (OCoLC)fst01076612
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Added Author |
Martin, Henri-Jean, 1924-2007.
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Gerard, David E.
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Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey.
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Wootton, David, 1952-
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| ISBN |
0860917975 |
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9780860917977 |
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