The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time / Keith Houston.
By: Houston, Keith [author.].
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]Edition: First edition.Description: pages cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393244793.Subject(s): Books -- History | Printing -- History | Paper -- History | Illustration of books -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | Z4 .H68 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000007903 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. The page -- A clean sheet : the invention of papyrus -- Hidebound : the grisly invention of parchment -- Pulp fictions : the ambiguous origins of paper in China -- From Silk Road to paper trail : paper goes global -- Part 2. The text -- Stroke of genius : the arrival of writing -- The prints and the pauper : Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of movable type -- Out of sorts : typesetting meets the industrial revolution -- Part 3. Illustrations -- Saints and scriveners : the rise of the illuminated manuscript -- Ex Oriente lux : woodcut comes to the West -- Etching a sketch : copperplate printing and the Renaissance -- Better imaging through chemistry : lithography, photography, and modern book -- Printing -- Part 4. Form -- Books before the book : papyrus scrolls and wax tablets -- Joining the folds : the invention of the codex -- Ties that bind : binding the paged book -- Size matters : the invention of the modern book.