The Tangible Page
Leah Price: Books as Things, 31 October 2002
The Book History Reader
edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery.
Routledge, 390 pp., £17.99, November 2001,0 415 22658 9 Show More
edited by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery.
Routledge, 390 pp., £17.99, November 2001,
Making Meaning: ‘Printers of the Mind’ and Other Essays
by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez.
Massachusetts, 296 pp., £20.95, June 2002,1 55849 336 0 Show More
by D.F. McKenzie, edited by Peter D. McDonald and Michael F. Suarez.
Massachusetts, 296 pp., £20.95, June 2002,
“... with their raw material, and the social-science-fiction of visionaries like Walter Ong and Marshall McLuhan. Those strands have coalesced into a discipline only in the past few decades, through the publication of multi-volume national histories of the book (1982-86 in France, ongoing in Britain and elsewhere); through the efforts of a professional ... ”