A Potencie of Life: Books in Society: The Clark Lectures, 1986-1987
by Nicolas Barker
The British Library studies in the history of the book (2001)
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Eight essays, most from the 1986-87 lecture series, explore the nourishment and the mutual, and interdependent exchanges between the press and the society that feeds and depends on it. A New Model for the Study of the Book was added as an introduction to the collection, and two of the original presentations are not included for technical reasons. The 1993 edition was published by The British Library. c. Book News Inc.Tags
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I borrowed this book entirely to have a look at Barker and Adams (fairly well-known) reworking of Darnton's communication cycle and did not expect to find such a treasure trove of articles about book history. It doesn't often happen that I take the time to read the articles in essay / lecture collections which have no relevance to my thesis but the quality was so high in this volume that it was a pleasure to do so. Who knew about paper? I do now!
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Nicolas Barker OBE FBA has had a long and very distinguished career in the world of books. In publishing, he worked for Rupert Hart-Davis, Macmillan and OUP, and then for twenty years was Deputy Keeper at the British Library, responsible for Conservation
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- Original publication date
- 1993
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, History
- DDC/MDS
- 002 — Computer science, information & general works Computer science, knowledge & systems Books (Science and history of the book)
- LCC
- Z4 .P63 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Books (General). Writing. Paleography History of books and bookmaking
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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