{"product_id":"companion-to-the-history-of-the-book-2-volume-set-isbn-9781119018179","title":"Companion to the History of the Book, 2 Volume Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContaining 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Eliot and Jonathan Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Methods, Materials, and Readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTony Edwards\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Textual Scholarship\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDirk Van Hulle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Uses of Quantification\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlexis Weedon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Palaeography and Codicology\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJane Roberts and Pamela Robinson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Paper\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaureen Green\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaroline Archer-Parré\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Printing to 1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRob Banham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Binding\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicholas Pickwoad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Archives and Paperwork\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Yale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 New Histories of Literacy\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatricia Crain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Readers: Books and Biography\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Colclough and Edmund King\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleanor Robson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCornelia Römer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichelle P. Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eM. T. Clanchy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III The Book in the Wider World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 China\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJ. S. Edgren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Kornicki\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 South Asia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGraham Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Latin America\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHortensia Calvo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 The Hebraic Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmile G. L. Schrijver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Books in Arabic Script\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDagmar A. Riedel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Slavic Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEkaterina Rogatchevskaia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Africa\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth le Roux\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Canada and Australasia\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlison Rukavina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV The Printed Book Predominant\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 The Gutenberg Revolutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLotte Hellinga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid J. Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 The British Book Market 1600–1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Feather   \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRietje van Vliet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell L. Martin III\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRob Banham\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Eliot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert A. Gross and Matt Cohen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Finkelstein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Rose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdriaan van der Weel\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeth Luey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePaul Luna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 The Global Market 1970-2014: Producers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIain Stevenson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 The Global Market 1970-2014: Consumers\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Squires\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Extending Print\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Periodicals and Periodicity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJames Wald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 The Importance of Ephemera\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHenry Raine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRowan Watson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 The Book as Art\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJae Jennifer Rossman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 The New Textual Technologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Scientific Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAileen Fyfe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Sarah Tyacke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Music and Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRupert Ridgewell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Consequences\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Feather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e50 The Common Writer\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMartyn Lyons\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e51 The Profession of Authorship\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobert Griffin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDonna Farina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeana Heath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e54 Book Collectors and Collections\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEric J. Holzenberg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e55 Libraries and the Invention of Information\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWayne A. Wiegand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoda\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e56 Does the Book Have a Future?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAngus Phillips\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The strengths of \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the History of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e include its greater depth of coverage both in number of topics and in the deeper coverage each chapter provides, and its more current overview of scholarship and scholarly trends.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eEileen M. Bentsen,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eLibraries: Culture, History, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e, 2021, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2021), pp. 135-137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Everything from technology and law to bibliography, textual criticism, palaeography, linguistics, art, and economics inform and are informed by the book's history, and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to the History of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses them all.\" (\u003ci\u003eRBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage,\u003c\/i\u003e Vol 21, No 1 (2020))\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.\" (\u003ci\u003eCHOICE,\u003c\/i\u003e May 2020)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Eliot\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Rose\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBook History\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe revised and updated edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Companion to the History of the Book\u003c\/i\u003e offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. 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