Title & Author:

A Potencie of life : books in society : the Clark Lectures 1986-1987 / edited by Nicolas Barker.

Publication:

London : British Library, 1993.

Description:

vi, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

British library studies in the history of the book

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A new model for the study of the book / Thomas R. Adams and Nicolas Barker. -- The commercial production of Manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris / R.H. and M.A. Rouse. -- The codex in the fifteenth century: Manuscript and print / Lotte Hellinga. -- American Papermakers and the Panic of 1819 / John Bidwell. -- Bookbinding and the History of Books / Mirjam M. Foot. -- The 'Trade of Authorship' in eighteenth-century Britain / W.B. Carnochan. -- Mount and page: Publishers of eighteenth-century Maritime books / Thomas R. Adams. -- Libraries and the mind of man / Nicolas Barker. -- Appendix: Internationality and reception theory.

ISBN:

0712302875
9780712302876

Subject:

Books History.
Books history
Bibliographies as Topic
Livres Histoire.
Bibliographie.
bibliographies.
Books
Boeken.
Industrie du livre Histoire.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Literature, mass media and performing arts.
Documentation, information science and librarianship.

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Barker, Nicolas.
British Library.
British Library studies in the history of the book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 110965
Call No.: ID Z124.A2P68; ID:94-B655
Status: Available