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The Cambridge history of the book in Britain

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Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999-

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Summary:
"The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain." -- Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Volume. 1. c400-1100 / edited by Richard Gameson
  • Volume 2. 1100-1400 / edited by Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson
  • Volume 3. 1400-1557 / edited by Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp
  • Volume 4. 1557-1695 / edited by John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie
  • Volume 5. 1695-1830 / edited by Michael F. Suarez and Michael L. Turner
  • Volume 6. 1830-1914 / edited by David McKitterick
  • Volume 7. The twentieth century and beyond / edited by Andrew Nash, Claire Squires, and I.R. Willison.
Contributors:
Hellinga, Lotte
Trapp, J. B. (Joseph Burney)
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Subjects:
Books — Great Britain — History
Book industries and trade — Great Britain — History
Books and reading — Great Britain — History
Great Britain — Intellectual history
Books
Book industries and trade
Books and reading
Great Britain
Genres:
History
General Notes:
Volumes published out of numerical order. Volume 3 was the first to be published (1999), followed by volume 4 (2002), volume 2 (2008), volumes 5-6 (2009), and volume 1 (2012). Volume 7 expected in 2019. To be complete in 7 volumes.
Volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6 published in paperback in 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Physical Description:
volumes : illustration ; 24 cm
Call Numbers:
Z8.G7 C36 1999
ISBNs:
9780521583459 (v. 1, hardback)
0521583454 (v. 1, hardback)
9780521782180 (v. 2, hardback)
052178218X (v. 2, hardback)
9781107636767 (v. 2, paperback)
9780521573467 (v. 3, hardback)
0521573467 (v. 3, hardback)
9781107698758 (v. 3, paperback)
9780521661829 (v. 4, hardback)
052166182X (v. 4, hardback)
9780521810173 (v. 5, hardback)
0521810175 (v. 5, hardback)
9781107626805 (v. 5, paperback)
1107626803 (v. 5, paperback)
9780521866248 (v. 6, hardback)
0521866243 (v. 6, hardback)
9781107668294 (v. 6, paperback)
1107668298
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
98004398
OCLC Numbers:
58890177