Beginning with one of the crucial technological breakthroughs of Western history - the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg - The History of the Boo

The essays in this volume cover the crucial period that saw the growth and consolidation of the printed book as a significant feature of Western European cultur

This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the Gutenberg Bi

Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of

This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-c