Table of Contents

Introduction
Writing Systems
The Sacred Book
The Ancient Book
The History of the Book in Byzantium
The European Medieval Book
The European Printing Revolution
The Book as Symbol
The Transmission of Jewish Knowledge through MSS & Printed Books
Missionary Printing
Paper
The Technologies of Print
The Economics of Print
Censorship
Copyright and Intellectual Property
The Manuscript after the Coming of Print
Printed Ephemera
Children's Books
The History of Illustration and its Technologies
Bookbinding
Theories of Text, Editorial Theory, and Textual Criticism
The Electronic Book
Britain, c. 1475-1800
Britain, 1801-1914
Britain from 1914
Ireland
France
the Low Countries
Germany
Switzerland
the Nordic Countries
the Iberian Peninsula
Italy
Modern Greece, c. 1453-2000
Austria
Hungary
Czech Republic and Slovakia
Poland
the Baltic States
Slavonic Book in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
the Balkans
Sub-Saharan Africa
the Muslim World
the Indian Subcontinent
China
Korea
Japan
Southeast Asia (1): The Islands
Southeast Asia (2): The Mainland
Australia
New Zealand
Latin America
Canada
America
West Indies/Caribbean

About the Author

Michael F. Suarez S.J. is Professor and Director of the Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Formerly the J. A. Kavanaugh Professor of English at Fordham University in New York and Fellow and Tutor in English at Campion Hall, Oxford, he is co-editor of The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, Volume 5, 1695-1830 (2009) and co-general editor of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, 8 vols (2006- ).
H. R. Woudhuysen is Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. He has edited The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse (1992), with David Norbrook; Love's Labour's Lost (1998) and, with Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare's Poems (2007) for the Arden Shakespeare third series. His book Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640 was published in 1996.

Reviews

As a collection of essays, this will be of immense use.
*David McKitterick, Library & Information History*

we should be thankful for the wealth of information that this book contains
*Adrian Johns, Isis*