A potencie of life : books in society : the Clark lectures, 1986-1987 / edited by Nicolas Barker
1993, First Edition. London New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #394163
ISBN: 0712302875
Series; The British Library studies in the history of the book. Physical description; 206 pages : illustrations. Notes; Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Originally published: London : British Library, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction -- A new model for the study of the book -- The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris -- The codex in the fifteenth century : manuscript and print -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 -- Bookbinding and the history of books -- The "trade of authorship" in eighteenth-century Britain -- Mount and Page : publishers of eighteenth-century maritime books -- Libraries and the mind of man -- Appendix -- Index. Subjects; Books History. Book industries and trade History. Books and reading History. Books Cultural aspects. Libraries History.
Price: €75.00