Book History / Histoire du Livre

Description: You'd pick Robert Darnton, Nicolas Barker, and Roger Chartier for your fantasy baseball team? You can fold your own quires and operate an iron handpress? You lie awake at night thinking about imagined communities and cultural capital? You get excited about typographers' archives? You know your morocco from your half-calf and your Goudy from your Gill? Some, none, or all of the above? Come in, my friends.

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Most commonly shared books (weighted): The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Lucien Febvre (9), The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval, and Oriental by David Diringer (7), The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making by Adrian Johns (8), The Complete Works of Horace by Horace (6), The printing press as an agent of change : communications… by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein (6), American iron hand presses by Stephen O. Saxe (3), Books on the frontier : print culture in the American West,… by Richard W. Clement (3), Orlando furioso; selections from the translation of Sir… by Lodovico Ariosto (3), Literary democracy : the declaration of cultural… by Larzer Ziff (3), Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally… by Alvin B. Kernan (3)

Created: Oct 12, 2007 by laurel_; Language: English