A Field Guide to Book History: Researching the Material Book

by Ann R Hawkins, Maura Ives, Ann R. Hawkins

As book historians will attest, students are usually surprised to learn that a book's container can matter deeply when it comes to understanding the value placed on it by the work's original readers. A Field Guide to Book History provides students and researchers new to the field the information and interpretive skills necessary for the material study of the book. Focusing on books published in England and America from the end of the eighteenth century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472436245
• ISBN13: 9781472436245
• Release Date: April 2029
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages