This selection of papers by major scholars introduces students to the history of the book in the West from late Antiquity to the publication of the Gutenberg Bi

This unique five volume set provides a comprehensive resource of the most significant published papers on book history in the West starting with the codex and f

Beginning with one of the crucial technological breakthroughs of Western history - the development of moveable type by Johann Gutenberg - The History of the Boo

The essays in this volume cover the crucial period that saw the growth and consolidation of the printed book as a significant feature of Western European cultur