A Companion to the History of the BookISBN: 978-1-4051-9278-1
Paperback
616 pages
March 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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- A coherent, transcontinental account of the history of the
book
- Ranges from the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the
emergence of electronic text
- Makes use of illustrative examples and case studies of
well-known texts
- Written by a group of expert contributors
- Covers topical debates, such as the nature of censorship and the future of the book