What is a Book? Dane Joseph A.
What is a Book? Dane Joseph A. Joseph A. is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Dane's What Is a Book? Part I of…
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What is a Book? Dane Joseph A.
Joseph A. is an introduction to the study of books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from around 1450 through 1800. Dane's What Is a Book?
Part I of What Is a Book? Using his own bibliographic interests as a guide, Dane selects illustrative examples primarily from fifteenth-century books, books of particular interest to students of English literature, and books central to the development of Anglo-American bibliography. covers the basic procedures of printing and the parts of the physical book--size, paper, type, illustration; Part II treats the history of book-copies--from cataloging conventions and provenance to electronic media and their implications for the study of books.Dane begins with the central distinction between a book-copy--the particular, individual, physical book--and a "book"--the abstract category that organizes these copies