The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time
(2016)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
002.09/HOUSTON,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York ; London : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
©2016
©2016
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393244793, 0393244792
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today