Summary

The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded

The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography.

The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions delve into such fascinating topics as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more.

Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.

Author Biography

Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies.

Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History.

Introduction
Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose

Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers

1 Bibliography
Tony Edwards

2 Textual Scholarship
Dirk Van Hulle

3 The Uses of Quantification
Alexis Weedon

4 Palaeography and Codicology
Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson

5 Paper
Maureen Green

6 Type, Typography, and the Typographer
Caroline Archer-Parré

7 Printing to 1970
Rob Banham

8 Binding
Nicholas Pickwoad

9 Archives and Paperwork
Elizabeth Yale

10 New Histories of Literacy
Patricia Crain

11 Readers: Books and Biography
Stephen Colclough and Edmund King

Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East

12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia
Eleanor Robson

13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and Rome
Cornelia Römer

14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100
Michelle P. Brown

15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500
M. T. Clanchy

Part III The Book in the Wider World

16 China
J. S. Edgren

17 Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
Peter Kornicki

18 South Asia
Graham Shaw

19 Latin America
Hortensia Calvo

20 The Hebraic Book
Emile G. L. Schrijver

21 Books in Arabic Script
Dagmar A. Riedel

22 The Slavic Book
Ekaterina Rogatchevskaia

23 Africa
Elizabeth le Roux

24 Canada and Australasia
Alison Rukavina

Part IV The Printed Book Predominant

25 The Gutenberg Revolutions
Lotte Hellinga

26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth Century
David J. Shaw

27 The British Book Market 1600–1800
John Feather

28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800
Rietje van Vliet

29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800
Russell L. Martin III

30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970
Rob Banham

31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890
Simon Eliot

32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890
Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin

33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890
Robert A. Gross and Matt Cohen

34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970
David Finkelstein

35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970
Jonathan Rose

36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970
Adriaan van der Weel

37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970
Beth Luey

38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014
Paul Luna

39 The Global Market 1970-2014: Producers
Iain Stevenson

40 The Global Market 1970-2014: Consumers
Claire Squires

Part V Extending Print

41 Periodicals and Periodicity
James Wald

42 The Importance of Ephemera
Henry Raine

43 Some Non-textual Uses of Books
Rowan Watson

44 The Book as Art
Jae Jennifer Rossman

45 The New Textual Technologies
Elena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes

46 Scientific Publishing
Aileen Fyfe

47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle Ages
Peter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Sarah Tyacke

48 Music and Print
Rupert Ridgewell

Part VI Consequences

49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary Property
John Feather

50 The Common Writer
Martyn Lyons

51 The Profession of Authorship
Robert Griffin

52 Lexicography: The Invention of Language
Donna Farina

53 Obscenity, Censorship, and Modernity
Deana Heath

54 Book Collectors and Collections
Eric J. Holzenberg

55 Libraries and the Invention of Information
Wayne A. Wiegand

Coda

56 Does the Book Have a Future?
Angus Phillips

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