03095 a2200289 4500 BJBSDDR 20250801173516.0 ta 300625s2022 enk 00| 0 eng d 9780198702993 019870299X eng DLC eng Z 4 O98 2022 The Oxford illustrated history of the book / Edited by James Raven. Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. xxxviii, 431 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm. First published as hardback in 2020 Includes index List 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 "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." Libros Historia 8722 Imprenta Historia 26149 Raven, James, 1959- 43923 editor lcc BK dpf 124013 124013 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-06-30 0 Z 4 O98 2022 00000190464 2025-06-30 00:00:00 1 2025-06-30 BK