Form and meaning in the history of the book : selected essays

Author(s)

• Barker, Nicolas

Bibliographic Information

Form and meaning in the history of the book : selected essays

Nicolas Barker

（The British Library studies in the history of the book）

British Library, 2003

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

• A very famous line
• Donne's 'Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche' : text and facsimile
• The medieval book
• In praise of manuscripts
• Quiring and the binder : quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings
• A register of writs and the scales binder
• The invention of printing : revolution within revolution
• The St Albans Press : the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder?
• Caxton's typography
• Caxton's quincentenary : a retrospect
• The Aldine Roman in Paris, 1530-1534
• The House of Enschedé and the history of typefounding in the Netherlands
• The death of the OUP Printing House
• The future of typographical studies
• A note on the bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802
• Books and readers 1475-1640
• Reflections on the history of the book
• The history of the book from documents
• Foxon -- and after?
• Ireland and the book trade
• 'Ireland, where booksellers cannot pretend to any property'
• The rise of the provincial book trade in England and the growth of a national transport system
• A scandal in America
• A note on Two poems
• C.S. Lewis, darkly
• Starling Burgess, no type designer
• Mismanaging mother : was William Beckford really a forger?
• Seen in a window
• A curious copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century
• The library catalogue of Laurence Sterne
• William Strahan and Laurence Sterne
• Antonio Agustín's letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza
• The aesthetic investor's guide to current literary values : an essay in bibliometry
• Four booksellers
• The Kraus saga
• Sion, Evelyn, and what next?
• The rape of the Rylands
• Libraries and the national literary heritage : two views from Europe
• The catalogue and the card
• The edible book

Details

• NCID: BA62257768
• ISBN:
  • 0712347771
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 514 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 002
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Books
  • LCSH : Books -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Books -- History
  • LCSH : Printing -- History
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA23161716