The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book

Contents: 

• The study of book history / Leslie Howsam 

Part I. Book cultures, local, national and global 

• Books in the library / Karen Attar
• Books in the nation / Trish Loughran
• Books in global perspectives / Sydney Shep 

Part II. The material book and the mutable text 

• Materials and meanings / Peter Stoicheff
• Handwriting and the book / Margaret J.M. Ezell
• The coming of print to Europe / Adrian Johns
• The authority and subversiveness of print in early modern Europe / Cyndia Clegg
• The industrial revolution of the book / James Raven
• The book in the long twentieth century / Alistair McCleery
• The digital book / Jon Bath and Scott Schofield 

Part III. Methods, sources and approaches to the history of the book 

• Book history from descriptive bibliographies / Michael F. Suarez, S.J.
• Book history from the archival record / Katherine Bode and Roger Osborne
• Book history in the reading experience / Mary Hammond
• Book history in the classroom / Leslie Howsam