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Books On The Move : Tracking Copies Through Collections And The Book Trade
The Book Of William : How Shakespeare’s First Folio Conquered The World

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Paul CollinsPublication Details
Book1st edBloomsbury2009Description
Broken down into five acts, each tied to a different location and century, The Book of William?s travelogue follows the trail of the Folio?s curious rise: a dizzying S otheby?s auction on a pristine copy preserved since the seventeenth century, the Fleet Street machinations of the eighteenth century, the nineteenth century quests for lost Folios, obsessive acquisitions by twentieth century oilmen, and the high-tech hoards of twenty-first century Japan. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
Print, Manuscript, And The Search For Order, 1450-1830

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David McKitterickPublication Details
BookCambridge University Press2003Links
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After re-examining fundamental aspects of the printing revolution of the early modern period, David McKitterick argues that many changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z124 .M39 2003 NEW BOOK(MAIN)
Books As History : The Importance Of Books Beyond Their Texts

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David PearsonPublication Details
BookBritish Library2008Description
In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced.David Pearson explores these themes and uses many examples of books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) Z4 .P43 2008 DUE 02-13-10
Promised Land : Thirteen Books That Changed America

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Jay PariniPublication Details
Book1st edDoubleday2008Description
In Promised Land, Jay Parini repossesses that vibrant, intellectual heritage by examining the life and times of thirteen “books that changed America.” Their influence remains pervasive, however hidden, and in his essays Jay Parini demonstrates how these books entered American life and altered how we think and act in the world. The thirteen “books that changed America”: Of Plymouth Plantation ? The Promised Land ? The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care ? (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS169.N35 P37 2008 AVAILABLE
A Companion To The History Of The Book

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edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan RosePublication Details
BookBlackwell Pub2007Links
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From the early Sumerian clay tablet through to the emergence of the electronic text, this Companion provides a continuous and coherent account of the history of the book. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z4 .C73 2007 AVAILABLE
The Book History Reader

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edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleeryPublication Details
Book2nd edRoutledge2006Links
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The Book History Reader is an essential collection of writings examining different aspects of the history of books and print culture: the development of the book, the move from spoken word to written texts, the commodification of books and authors and the power and profile of readers. This pioneering book will be a vital resource for all those involved in publishing studies, library studies, book history and also those studying English literature, cultural studies, sociology and history. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z4 .B647 2006 AVAILABLE
An Introduction To Book History

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David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleeryPublication Details
BookRoutledge2005Links
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Sections include: (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z4 .F49 2005 DUE 02-07-10
Goodbye Gutenberg : Hello To A New Generation Of Readers And Writers

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written and designed by Valerie KirschenbaumPublication Details
Book1st edGlobal Renaissance Society2005Description
This bold work responds with great originality and imagination to the problem of changing interest and technology in book making by comparing ancient design methods with modern techniques and illustrating the many ways in which books can be read and used. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z116.A3 K57 2005 AVAILABLE
The Future Of The Page

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edited by Peter Stoicheff and Andrew TaylorPublication Details
BookUniversity of Toronto Press2004Description
Spanning the centuries between the earliest record of the page and current computerized conceptions of page-like entities, the essays examine the size of the page, its relative dimensions, materials, design, and display of information. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) Z116.A3 F88 2004 AVAILABLE
The Book : The Life Story Of A Technology
Film Writing And Selected Journalism

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James AgeePublication Details
BookLibrary of America2005Description
James Agee brought to bear all his moral energy, slashing wit, and boundless curiosity in the criticism and journalism that established him as one of the commanding literary voices of America at mid-century. Those columns, along with much of the movie criticism that Agee wrote for Time through most of the 1940s, were collected posthumously in Agee on Film: Reviews and Comments, undoubtedly the most influential writings on film by an American. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3501.G35 A6 2005b AVAILABLE
Gutenberg Digital Göttinger Gutenberg-Bibel, Musterbuch Und Helmaspergersches Notariatsinstrument = The Göttinger Gutenberg-Bible, Model Book And Helmasperger’s Notary Instrument
Johann Gutenberg And The Amazing Printing Press

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Bruce KoscielniakPublication Details
BookHoughton Mifflin Co2003Links
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But thanks to Johann Gutenberg in the fifteenth century, modern printing was born and nowadays it can take only a few seconds to print a book. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVER CHILD LIT (LOWER) 686.2 K862j AVAILABLE
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