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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The history of the book is the history of millions of written printed and illustrated texts their manufacture distribution and reception. Here are different types of production from clay tablets to scrolls from inscribed codices to printed books pamphlets magazines and newspapers from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination all dependent on innovations in transport from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads trains planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture craftsmanship. dissemination reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production distribution and reception of how books themselves made history. To this end each chapter of this volume succinctly bounded by period and geography. (MP)