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What Is a Book? - The Study of Early Printed Books (Hardcover)
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What Is a Book? - The Study of Early Printed Books (Hardcover)
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Joseph A. Dane's What Is a Book? is an introduction to the study of
books produced during the period of the hand press, dating from
around 1450 through 1800. 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. Part I of What Is a Book? 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 into editions, whereby each
copy is interchangeable with any other. Among other issues, Dane
addresses such basic questions as: How do students, bibliographers,
and collectors discuss these things? And when is it legitimate to
generalize on the basis of particular examples? Dane considers each
issue in terms of a practical example or question a reader might
confront: How do you identify books on the basis of typography?
What is the status of paper evidence? How are the various elements
on the page defined? What are the implications of the images
available in an online database? And, significantly, how does a
scholar's personal experience with books challenge or conform to
the standard language of book history and bibliography? Dane's
accessible and lively tour of the field is a useful guide for all
students of book history, from the beginner to the specialist.
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