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.

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Author:   Simon Eliot (University of London, UK) ,  Jonathan Rose (Drew University, USA)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 5.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.996kg
ISBN:  

9781119018179

ISBN 10:   111901817
Pages:   976
Publication Date:   25 October 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers 1 Bibliography Tony Edwards 2 Textual Scholarship Dirk Van Hulle 3 The Uses of Quantification Alexis Weedon 4 Palaeography and Codicology Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson 5 Paper Maureen Green 6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer Caroline Archer-Parré 7 Printing to 1970 Rob Banham 8 Binding Nicholas Pickwoad 9 Archives and Paperwork Elizabeth Yale 10 New Histories of Literacy Patricia Crain 11 Readers: Books and Biography Stephen Colclough and Edmund King Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia Eleanor Robson 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome Cornelia Römer 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100 Michelle P. Brown 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500 M. T. Clanchy Part III The Book in the Wider World 16 China J. S. Edgren 17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam Peter Kornicki 18 South Asia Graham Shaw 19 Latin America Hortensia Calvo 20 The Hebraic Book Emile G. L. Schrijver 21 Books in Arabic Script Dagmar A. Riedel 22 The Slavic Book Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia 23 Africa Elizabeth le Roux 24 Canada and Australasia Alison Rukavina Part IV The Printed Book Predominant 25 The Gutenberg Revolutions Lotte Hellinga 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century David J. Shaw 27 The British Book Market 1600–1800 John Feather    28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800 Rietje van Vliet 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 Russell L. Martin III  30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970 Rob Banham 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890 Simon Eliot 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890 Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890 Robert A. Gross and Matt Cohen 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970 David Finkelstein 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970 Jonathan Rose 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970 Adriaan van der Weel 37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970 Beth Luey 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014 Paul Luna 39 The Global Market 1970-2014: Producers Iain Stevenson 40 The Global Market 1970-2014: Consumers Claire Squires Part V Extending Print 41 Periodicals and Periodicity James Wald 42 The Importance of Ephemera Henry Raine 43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books Rowan Watson 44 The Book as Art Jae Jennifer Rossman 45 The New Textual Technologies Elena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes 46 Scientific Publishing Aileen Fyfe 47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle Ages Peter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Sarah Tyacke 48 Music and Print Rupert Ridgewell Part VI Consequences 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property John Feather 50 The Common Writer Martyn Lyons 51 The Profession of Authorship Robert Griffin 52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language Donna Farina 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity Deana Heath 54 Book Collectors and Collections Eric J. Holzenberg 55 Libraries and the Invention of Information Wayne A. Wiegand Coda 56 Does the Book Have a Future? Angus Phillips

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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)

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. 

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