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- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- 1 The study of book history
- Part I Book cultures, local, national and global
- Part II The material book and the mutable text
- 5 Materials and meanings
- 6 Handwriting and the book
- 7 The coming of print to Europe
- 8 The authority and subversiveness of print in early-modern Europe
- 9 The industrial revolution of the book
- 10 The book in the long twentieth century
- 11 The digital book
- Part III Methods, sources and approaches to the history of the book
- Glossary of technical terms used by bibliographers and historians of the book
- Guide to further reading
- Index
5 - Materials and meanings
from Part II - The material book and the mutable text
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Chronology
- 1 The study of book history
- Part I Book cultures, local, national and global
- Part II The material book and the mutable text
- 5 Materials and meanings
- 6 Handwriting and the book
- 7 The coming of print to Europe
- 8 The authority and subversiveness of print in early-modern Europe
- 9 The industrial revolution of the book
- 10 The book in the long twentieth century
- 11 The digital book
- Part III Methods, sources and approaches to the history of the book
- Glossary of technical terms used by bibliographers and historians of the book
- Guide to further reading
- Index
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- The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book , pp. 73 - 89Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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