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What is a Book?
Joseph A. Dane
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Description for What is a Book?
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GB; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 486.
Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. Part I of What Is a Book? covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book-size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies-from cataloguing conventions and provenance to ... Read more
Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. Part I of What Is a Book? covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book-size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies-from cataloguing conventions and provenance to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268026097
SKU
V9780268026097
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About Joseph A. Dane
Joseph A. Dane is professor of English at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
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