Histories you can trust. In 14 original essays, The Oxford History
of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various
forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading
international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated
narrative that is global in scope. The history of the book is the
history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts,
their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different
types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed
codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers,
from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is
a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination,
all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and
transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It
is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from
learned debate and individual study to public instruction and
entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship,
dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not
simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of
reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of
textual production, distribution and reception - of how books
themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume,
succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and
stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the
story of their times.
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