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• Title:The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time / Keith Houston.
  
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• Author/Creator:Houston, Keith, 1977- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:W.W. Norton & Company, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: Z4 .H68 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Books--History.
  Printing--History.
  Books and reading--History.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-401) and index.
  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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-405) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780393244793 hardcover
  0393244792 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. 1 Page'
  1. Clean Sheet: the invention of papyrus
  2. Hidebound: the grisly invention of parchment
  3. Pulp Fictions: the ambiguous origins of paper in China
  4. From Silk Road to Paper Trail: paper goes global
  pt. 2 Text
  5. Stroke of Genius: the arrival of writing
  6. Prints and the Pauper: Johannes Gutenberg and the invention of movable type
  7. Out of Sorts: typesetting meets the Industrial Revolution
  pt. 3 Illustrations
  8. Saints and Scriveners: the rise of the illuminated manuscript
  9. Ex Oriente Lux: woodcut comes to the West
  10. Etching a Sketch: copperplate printing and the Renaissance
  11. Better Imaging Through Chemistry: lithography, photography, and modern book printing
  pt. 4 Form
  12. Books Before the Book: papyrus scrolls and wax tablets
  13. Joining the Folds: the invention of the codex
  14. Ties That Bind: binding the paged book
  15. Size Matters: the invention of the modern book.