Contents

• Why bibliography matters /T.H. Howard-Hill
• What is textual scholarship? /David Greetham
• The uses of quantification /Alexis Weedon
• Readers : books and biography /Stephen Colclough
• The clay tablet book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia /Eleanor Robson
• The papyrus roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome /Cornelia Roemer
• China /J.S. Edgren
• Japan, Korea, and Vietnam / Peter Kornicki
• South Asia /Graham Shaw
• Latin America /Hortensia Calvo
• The Hebraic book /Emile G.L. Schrijver
• The Islamic book /Michael Albin
• The triumph of the codex : the manuscript book before 1100 /Michelle P. Brown
• Parchment and paper : manuscript culture 1100-1500 /M.T. Clanchy
• The Gutenberg revolutions /Lotte Hellinga
• The book trade comes of age : the sixteenth century /David J. Shaw
• The British book market 1600-1800 /John Feather
• Print and public in Europe 1600-1800 /Rietje van Vliet
• North America and transatlantic book culture to 1800 / Russell L. Martin III
• The industrialization of the book 1800-1970 /Rob Banham
• From few and expensive to many and cheap : the British book market 1800-1890 / Simon Eliot
• A continent of texts : Europe 1800-1890 /Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin
• Building a national literature : the United States 1800- 1890 /Robert A. Gross
• The globalization of the book 1800-1970 /David Finkelstein
• Modernity and print I : Britain 1890-1970 /Jonathan Rose
• Modernity and print II : Europe 1890-1970 /Adriaan van der Weel
• Modernity and print III : the United States 1890-1970 / Beth Luey
• Books and bits : texts and technology 1970 -2000 /Paul Luna
• The global market 1970-2000 : producers /Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
• The global market 1970-2000 : consumers /Claire Squires
• Periodicals and periodicity /James Wald
• The importance of ephemera /Martin Andrews
• The new textual technologies /Charles Chadwyck-Healey
• New histories of literacy /Patricia Crain
• Some non-textual uses of books /Rowan Watson
• The book as art /Megan L. Benton
• Obscenity, censorship, and modernity /Deana Heath
• Copyright and the creation of literary property /John Feather
• Libraries and the invention of information /Wayne A. Wiegand
• Does the book have a future? /Angus Phillips