Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History

by Joseph A. Dane

"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we define as its foundation."--From the Introduction

What...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245490
• ISBN13: 9780812245493
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"