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Contents
Front Matter
Essays
1 Writing Systems
2 The Sacred Book
3 The Ancient Book
4 The History of the Book in Byzantium
5 The European Medieval Book
6 The European Printing Revolution
7 The Book as Symbol
8 The Transmission of Jewish Knowledge through MSS and Printed Books
9 Missionary Printing
10 Paper
11 The Technologies of Print
12 The Economics of Print
13 The Manuscript after the Coming of Print
14 Printed Ephemera
15 Children’s Books
16 The History of Illustration and its Technologies
17 Bookbinding
18 Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism
19 The Electronic Book
20a The History of the Book in Britain, c.1475–1800
20b The History of the Book in Britain, 1801–1914
20c The History of the Book in Britain from 1914
21 The History of the Book in Ireland
22 The History of the Book in France
23 The History of the Book in the Low Countries
24 The History of the Book in Germany
25 The History of the Book in Switzerland
26 The History of the Book in the Nordic Countries
27 The History of the Book in the Iberian Peninsula
28 The History of the Book in Italy
29 The History of the Book in Modern Greece, c.1453–2000
30 The History of the Book in Austria
31 The History of the Book in Hungary
32 The History of the Book in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
33 The History of the Book in Poland
34 The History of the Book in the Baltic States
35 The Slavonic Book in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
36 The History of the Book in the Balkans
37 The History of the Book in Sub-Saharan Africa
38 The History of the Book in the Muslim World
39 The History of the Book in the Indian Subcontinent
40 The History of the Book in China
41 The History of the Book in Korea
42 The History of the Book in Japan
43a The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (1): The Islands
43b The History of the Book in Southeast Asia (2): The Mainland
44 The History of the Book in Australia
45 The History of the Book in New Zealand
46 The History of the Book in Latin America (including Incas, Aztecs, and the Caribbean)
47 The History of the Book in Canada
48 The History of the Book in America
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