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David PearsonPublication Details
BookBritish Library2008Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS BROWSING (MAIN) Z4 .P43 2008 DUE 02-13-10 New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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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)Subject
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- "A material culture study focused on the importance of books as objects and their histories from the Middle Ages to present. Looks beyond content and text of books, to other properties such as printing, binding, annotation, etc. Over 140 full-color illustrations, bibliography for further reading, and index"–Provided by publisher
Contents
- Books in history
- Books beyond texts
- Individuality within mass production
- Variety through ownership
- Variety through binding
- The collective value of historic libraries
- Values for the future
- Variety between copies : a case study
ISBN
- 9781584562337
- 1584562331
- 9780712349239
- 0712349235
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