The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time / Keith Houston.
2016
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Title
The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time / Keith Houston.
Edition
First edition.
Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Description
xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
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Summary
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-401) and index.
Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State).
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Call number
Z4 .H68 2016