Book #58562

Book History: Volume 8

Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Publisher: University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0271027363

Price: $50.00

A Fine edition.

The eighth edition of the highly acclaimed and widely used Book History introduces students to the history of books and book publishing from antiquity to the present. Chapters on the history of the book in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the Enlightenment offer students a unique and comprehensive view of the development of the book medium. This edition also includes new coverage of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book history, including the history of the book in America, the history of the book in Europe, and the history of the book in Asia.; 8vo; 323 pages.