02979 a2200253 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001300102041000800115050001800123245007300141260008100214300006800295500004000363500002000403505072200423520149801145650002102643650002502664700003602689BJBSDDR20250801173516.0ta300625s2022 enk 00| 0 eng d a9780198702993 a019870299X bengcDLC aeng14aZ 4bO98 202204aThe Oxford illustrated history of the book /cEdited by James Raven. aOxford, United Kingdom ; aNew York, NY : bOxford University Press, c2022. axxxviii, 431 pages : billustrations (chiefly color) ; c25 cm. aFirst published as hardback in 2020 aIncludes index 0 aList of Figures Notes on Contributors Timeline Introduction / James Raven The Ancient world / Eleanor Robson Byzantium / Barbara Crostini Medieval and Early Modern East Asia / Cynthia Brokaw Medieval Western Europe / David Rundle Renaissance and Reformation / James Raven and Joran Proot Managing Information / Ann Blair The Islamic World / Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom Enlightenment and Revolution / Jeffrey Freedman South Asia / Graham Shaw Industrialization / Marie-Fancoise Cachin Modern China, Japan, and Korea / Christopher A. Reed and M. William Steele Globalization / Eva Hemmungs Wirten Books Transformed / Jeffrey T. Schnapp Abbreviations and Glossary Further Reading Picture Acknowledgements Index a"In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope. The history of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times." 4aLibrosxHistoria 4aImprenta xHistoria 1 aRaven, James, d1959- eeditor