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History of the Book
(38 Books)
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A Companion to the History of the Book
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Simon Eliot
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3.61 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Book History Reader
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David Finkelstein
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An Introduction to Book History
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David Finkelstein
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A History of Reading
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Alberto Manguel
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The Book in the Renaissance
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Andrew Pettegree
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The Book: A Global History
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Michael F. Suarez
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe (Complete in One Volume)
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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
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The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
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Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
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Introduction to Manuscript Studies
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Raymond Clemens
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A Guide to Western Historical Scripts from Antiquity to 1600
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Michelle P. Brown
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Scribes And Illuminators
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Christopher de Hamel
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Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms ("^ALooking at" Series)
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Michelle P. Brown
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The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts: History and Techniques
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Image on the Edge: The Margins of Medieval Art
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Michael Camille
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A History of Book Illustration: Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book
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David Bland
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Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
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George W. Houston
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Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft
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Dard Hunter
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In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to Hugh's Didascalicon
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Ivan Illich
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The Birth of the Codex (Proceedings of the British Academy: Themed volumes of essays in the humanities and social sciences)
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Colin Henderson Roberts
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Authentic Witnesses: Approaches To Medieval Texts and Manuscripts
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Mary A. Rouse
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The Medieval Book: Illustrated from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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Barbara A. Shailor
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Ancient Writing and Its Influence
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B.L. Ullman
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The Art of Medieval Manuscripts
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Krystyna Weinstein
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Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe
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Benedek Láng
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Anathema!: Medieval Scribes and the History of Book Curses
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Marc Drogin
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Twelve Centuries Of Bookbindings, 400-1600
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Paul Needham
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Binding Words: Textual Amulets in the Middle Ages
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Don C. Skemer
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The Bible as Book: the Manuscript Tradition (The Bible as Book)
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Kimberly Van Kampen
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Manuscripts and Monastic Culture: Reform and Renewal in Twelfth-Century Germany
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Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature
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L.D. Reynolds
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Books and Readers in Early Modern England: Material Studies
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Jennifer Andersen
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future
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Robert Darnton
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The Name of the Rose
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Umberto Eco
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
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Michael F. Suarez
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Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
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D.F. McKenzie
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The Smithsonian Book of Books
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Michael Olmert
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Making Meaning: "Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays (Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book)
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D.F. McKenzie
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