Making Meaning: Printers of the Mind and Other Essays

by D.F. McKenzie

The greatest bibliographer of our time, was how historian Robert Darnton described D. F. McKenzie. Yet until now many of McKenzie's major essays, scattered in specialist journals and inaccessible publications, have circulated mainly in tattered photocopies. This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together for the first time a wide range of his writings on bibliography, the book trade, and the "sociology of texts." Selected...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558493360
• ISBN13: 9781558493360
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher