Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004742659)

Vendor: David John McKitterick
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$151.00
$151.00
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Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers

$151.00

Five Centuries of Printers, Buyers and Readers

$151.00
Format: Hardcover
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For anyone interested in the production and dissemination of printed books since the fifteenth century, this collection of essays offers a way of studying how tastes and practices have changed and can be understood. Using evidence from tiny fragments to entire libraries, from the manufacture of type and the creation of bindings to the sale of books, Professor McKitterick explores how people have come to decisions about what and how to read. As the world now depends increasingly on digital resources, these essays provide the means of understanding how print was dominant for five centuries.

Author: David John McKitterick
ISBN-10: 9004742654
ISBN-13: 9789004742659
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 07/08/2026
Pages: 546
Format: Hardcover
By David John McKitterick
By David John McKitterick
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David McKitterick FBA, was for many years Librarian of Trinity College and Honorary Professor of Historical Bibliography at Cambridge. He is one of the general editors of the Cambridge History of the book in Britain. His monographs include The Invention of Rare Books; Private Interest and Public Memory, 1600-1840 (2018), based on his Panizzi lectures at the British Library, and Readers in a Revolution; Bibliographical Change in the Nineteenth Century (2022).

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