Resources
The Oxford Companion to the Book by Call Number: Z4 .O946 2010ISBN: 9780198606536Publication Date: 2010-02-08The Oxford Companion to the Book is a unique work of reference, covering the book, broadly conceived, throughout the world from ancient to modern times. It includes traditional subjects such as bibliography, palaeography, the history of printing, editorial theory and practice, textual criticism, book collecting, and libraries, but it also engages with newer disciplines such as the history of the book and the electronic book. It pays particular attention to how different societies shape books and how books shape societies.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain by Call Number: Z4 .O946 2010ISBN: 9780521583459Publication Date: 2011-12-22This is the first comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. The expert contributions explore the physical form of books, including their codicology, script and decoration, examine the circulation and exchange of manuscripts and texts between England, Ireland, the Celtic realms and the Continent, discuss the production, presentation and use of different classes of texts, ranging from fine service books to functional schoolbooks, and evaluate the libraries that can be associated with particular individuals and institutions. The result is an authoritative account of the first millennium of the history of books, manuscript-making, and literary culture in Britain which, intimately linked to its cultural contexts, sheds vital light on broader patterns of political, ecclesiastical and cultural history extending from the period of the Vindolanda writing tablets through the age of Bede and Alcuin to the time of the Domesday Book.
Encyclopedia of the Book by Call Number: Z118 .G55 2001ISBN: 1884718140Publication Date: 2001-01-01A comprehensive reference with over 3,000 entries defining terms used in bookmaking, printing, papermaking, and the book trade. Includes biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders, bibliophiles; and information on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, organizations, customs of the trade, and arcane book lore. Moderately illustrated, including eight pages of color plates.
A New Introduction to Bibliography by Call Number: Z1001 .G385 1979ISBN: 0198181507Publication Date: 1972-11-23
Databases
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowEighteenth Century Collections Online delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new windowFully-searchable primary documents arranged in subject-specific archives. Encompasses a variety of disciplines from History to Literature to Women's studies to Science
- Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets This link opens in a new windowContains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries.
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