A Potencie of Life: Books in Society, the Clark Lectures 1986-1987

Contents: A new model for the study of the book / Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker The commercial production of Manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris / R.H. and M.A. Rouse The codex in the fifteenth century: Manuscript and print / Lotte Hellinga American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819 / John Bidwell Bookbinding and the History of Books / Mirjam M. Foot The 'Trade of Authorship' in eighteenth-century Britain / W.B. Carnochan Mount and page: Publishers of eighteenth-century Maritime books / Thomas R. Adams Libraries and the mind of man / Nicolas Barker Appendix: Internationality and reception theory