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A Companion to the History of the Book Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post‐canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the experienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field. Published Recently 78. A Companion to American Literary Studies Edited by Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine 79. A New Companion to the Gothic Edited by David Punter 80. A Companion to the American Novel Edited by Alfred Bendixen 81. A Companion to Literature, Film, and Adaptation Edited by Deborah Cartmell 82. A Companion to George Eliot Edited by Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw 83. 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All courtesy of the Museum of Writing Research Collection, Institute of English Studies, University of London Set in 11/13.5pt Garamond by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Notes on Contributors xi Volume 1 Introduction to the Second Edition 1 Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers 3 1 Bibliography 5 A. S. G. Edwards 2 Textual Scholarship 19 Dirk Van Hulle 3 The Uses of Quantification 31 Alexis Weedon 4 Paleography and Codicology 51 Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson 5 Paper 65 Maureen Green 6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer 81 Caroline Archer‐Parré 7 Printing to 1970 95 Rob Banham 8 Bookbinding 111 Nicholas Pickwoad vi Contents 9 Archives and Paperwork 129 Elizabeth Yale 10 New Histories of Literacy 143 Patricia Crain 11 Readers: Books and Biography 157 Stephen Colclough‡ and Edmund G. C. King Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East 173 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia 175 Eleanor Robson 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome 191 Cornelia Römer 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book Before 1100 203 Michelle P. Brown 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500 219 Michael Clanchy Part III The Book in the Wider World 235 16 China 237 J. S. Edgren 17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam 253 Peter Kornicki 18 South Asia 269 Graham Shaw 19 Latin America 283 Hortensia Calvo 20 The Hebraic Book 301 Emile G. L. Schrijver 21 Books in Arabic Script 315 Dagmar A. Riedel 22 The Slavic Book 335 Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia 23 Africa 349 Elizabeth le Roux Contents vii 24 Canada and Australasia 363 Alison Rukavina Volume 2 Part IV The Printed Book Predominant 377 25 The Gutenberg Revolutions 379 Lotte Hellinga 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century 393 David J. Shaw 27 The British Book Market 1600–1800 407 John Feather 28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800 423 Rietje van Vliet 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800 437 Russell L. Martin III 30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970 453 Rob Banham 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800–90 471 Simon Eliot 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890 485 Jean‐Yves Mollier and Marie‐Françoise Cachin 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800–1890 499 Robert A. Gross and Matt Cohen 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800–1970 515 David Finkelstein 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890–1970 529 Jonathan Rose 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890–1970 543 Adriaan van der Weel 37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970 559 Beth Luey 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology since 1970 573 Paul Luna viii Contents 39 The Global Market 1970–2015: Producers 589 Iain Stevenson‡ 40 The Global Market 1970–2015: Consumers 601 Claire Squires Part V Extending Print 615 41 Periodicals and Periodicity 617 James Wald 42 The Importance of Ephemera 633 Henry Raine 43 Some Non‐textual Uses of Books 645 Rowan Watson 44 The Book as Art 661 Jae Jennifer Rossman 45 The New Textual Technologies 677 Elena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes 46 Scientific Publications, c.1500–2000 691 Aileen Fyfe 47 Maps and Their Readers Since the Middle Ages 705 Peter Barber, Catherine Delano‐Smith, and Sarah Tyacke 48 Music and Print 727 Rupert Ridgewell Part VI Consequences 743 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property 745 John Feather 50 The Common Writer since 1500 759 Martyn Lyons 51 The Profession of Authorship 773 Robert J. Griffin 52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language 787 Donna M. T. Cr. Farina 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity 801 Deana Heath
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