A potencie of life : books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987

A potencie of life : books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987

Paperback ed.

London : British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2001.

vi, 206 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

002 P861 2001

(OCoLC)48414037

First published in 1993 by the British Library.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction -- A new model for the study of the book -- The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris -- The codex in the fifteenth century : manuscript and print -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 -- Bookbinding and the history of books -- The 'trade of authorship' in eighteenth-century Britain -- Mount and page : publishers of eighteenth-century maritime books -- Libraries and the mind of man -- Appendix -- Index.
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