Overview
The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography. The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions delve into such fascinating topics as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more. Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.
Full Product Details
Author: Simon Eliot (University of London, UK) ,
Jonathan Rose (Drew University, USA)
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Edition: 2nd edition
ISBN: 9781119018162
ISBN 10: 1119018161
Pages: 1000
Publication Date: 29 May 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""The strengths of A Companion to the History of the Book include its greater depth of coverage both in number of topics and in the deeper coverage each chapter provides, and its more current overview of scholarship and scholarly trends."" —Eileen M. Bentsen, Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, 2021, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2021), pp. 135-137 ""Everything from technology and law to bibliography, textual criticism, palaeography, linguistics, art, and economics inform and are informed by the book's history, and A Companion to the History of the Book encompasses them all."" (RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, Vol 21, No 1 (2020)) ""Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."" (CHOICE, May 2020)"
Author Information
Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies. Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History.
