What is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books
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| Year of Publication |
2012
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| Contributors |
Author:
Joseph A. Dane |
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| Number of Pages |
276 pp.
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| Publisher |
University of Notre Dame Press
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| City |
Notre Dame, IN
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| ISBN |
9780268026097
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| Annotation |
Contents:
Part I. Elements of material books
Terminology
The matter of size
Materials: ink, paper
Mechanics of the press: variation
Page format and layout
Typography
Illustrations: techniques and applications
Part II. History of books and histories of book-copies
Bindings
Marks in books: provenance
Books in books and books from books
Ideal copy and the goals of enumerative and descriptive bibliography
The ersatz book I: Facsimiles and forgeries
The ersatz book II: Electronic books and databases
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