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	RBS History Course Offerings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In their personal statement, applicants are encouraged to describe the nature of their developing interest in the history of the book and (if relevant) explain briefly the causes of this interest and the purposes to which they propose to put the knowledge gained from the course.
		This course will cover the development of the Western printed book in the hand-press period, that is from the middle of the c15 to the beginning of the c19, in chronological and thematic sessions via a combination of lectures, workshops, slides, videotapes, and films.
		This course concludes the RBS sequence of history of the book courses beginning with The Book in the Manuscript Era (H-20) and continuing with The Printed Book in the West to 1800 (H-30).
	www.virginia.edu /oldbooks/bulletin/history.html (3185 words)

	Doorbar: a very brief history of the book
		Books from this period are so rare that it is normal for collectors to make do with single sheets from one of these books.
		Books from this period tend to be incomplete and have often been rebound several times.
		Books from this period are amongst the worst as artefacts.
	www.doorbar.co.uk /books/bk3.htm (1853 words)

	The History of the Book at Oxford and Princeton
		The 'history of the book' has emerged as the term used to designate a new grouping of forms of intellectual enquiry, which combines aspects of traditional bibliography with literary, cultural, political, social, economic and religious history.
		Rather than begin the task of the intellectual, cultural or literary historian with the content of books of the past, the history of the book causes the historian to linger over a range of questions which can transform his or her perception of their meaning and significance.
		The Oxford-Princeton partnership in the History of the Book
	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk /hbook (588 words)

	History of the Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This meant both that books could be cheaper in general, and that it was financially practicable to print them in limited numbers for a more restricted readership than before.
		So rather than immediately displacing the printed codex, the advent of the digital book meant that the physical book could now flourish as never before, while preparing the ground for a decisive future shift towards electronic reading (remember for example that clay tablets survived into the era of papyrus rolls for around five hundred years).
		Indeed the book of the future could even be spontaneously assembled from multiple sources for specific educational or entertainment purposes, by a single reader or group.
	www.e-book.com.au /bookhistory.htm (1201 words)

	HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AUSTRALIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		History of the book - or 'print culture' - is a rapidly emerging interdisciplinary area of study.
		A working group to co-ordinate the writing of a History of the Book in Australia in three parts was formed in 1993 and has met regularly since then.
		At the Centre's 4Rs editing conference at the Humanities Research Centre, ANU in April 1994 a session on the History of the Book in Australia was included and the committee met afterwards; and later in 1994 another well-attended seminar was held at the State Library in Victoria in conjunction with a BSANZ conference.
	idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au /ASEC/HOBA.html (258 words)

	Centre for the History of the Book: University of Edinburgh
		Centre for the History of the Book: University of Edinburgh
		The CENTRE for the HISTORY of the BOOK
		BOOK HISTORY is an area of interdisciplinary enquiry, drawing on the methods of Bibliography, Social History, Literary Criticism, and Cultural Theory.
	www.arts.ed.ac.uk /chb (132 words)

	A Brief History of the Book
		If the history of the book teaches us anything it is that there are no limits to the ingenuity with which publishers, authors, and booksellers, re-invent old practices.
		The e-book, the microfilm, the vellum, and the print book are instances of the lateral scroll - from left to right (or from right to left, in the Semitic languages).
		In other words, the replication of the book's message is achieved by passing it along and no loss is incurred thereby (i.e., there is no physical metamorphosis of the message).
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/12-30-2001-8431.asp (624 words)

	The History of the Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Center for Book Arts is dedicated to preserving the traditional crafts of book-making, as well as exploring and encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object.
		Its work is channeled through five program areas: exhibitions related to the arts of the book; lectures on topics of interest to book artists and craftspeople; a modest publication schedule; services to artists, both established and emerging and -- much the most prominent currently -- an extensive offering of classes.
		These classes are ideal for artists and craftspersons interested in producing works in the book format, as well as for teachers who want to develop skills to incorporate into the classroom experience.
	www.centerforbookarts.org /history (416 words)

	History of the Book
		The collection was established in 1954 based on the several hundred books of typographical interest given in the 1940s and 1950s to the library by William George Colgate of Toronto.
		The collection is noted for its extensive holdings on the history and technique of printing; calligraphy and letter forms; design of typefaces and typographical productions; typefounding and typefounders' specimens and printers' manuals and handbooks, including those for colour printing and paper making.
		The books, of which there are eighty-eight volumes, are mostly first editions and date from the period ca 1950 to 1980.
	www.library.mcgill.ca /rarebook/hisbook.htm (948 words)

	History of the Book
		Handouts, readings, and assignments are all part of a design intended to introduce you to the history of books and printing.
		It is designed to encourage the student to consider the book in both its denotative and conative aspects.
		Emphasis will be placed on identification of terms important in understanding the history of the book.
	web.utk.edu /~wrobinso/430syl.html (923 words)

	The History of Printing
		Books in this period are entirely constructed by hand, and are largely religious texts whose creation is meant as an act of worship.
		Books are beginning to be produced that do not serve as objects of worship, but that try to explain something about the observable world.
		The images are meant to represent some aspect of Christ's life: the snake representing rebirth (in the shedding of its skin) and, at the same time, Original Sin; the peacock representing the incorruptibility of Christ (a reflection of the ancient belief that the flesh of a peacock is incorruptible) (Meehan 1994:50,53,59).
	communication.ucsd.edu /bjones/Books/four.html (1149 words)

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		The organization's website defines book history as a field of intellectual inquiry which "concerns the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print." This is a fluid definition which can and does stretch to include a wide variety of fields.
		Meanwhile, marginalized disciplines such as library history, publishing history, literacy studies, and print history are finding a common ground under the aegis of the history of the book.
		University of Edinburgh Centre for the History of the Book, Scotland
	www.scils.rutgers.edu /~mcguire/bookhist.html (2128 words)

	History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		AAS established the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture in 1983 in order to focus its resources on promoting an emerging field of interdisciplinary inquiry.
		The annual series of James Russell Wiggins Lectures in the History of the Book in American Culture, inaugurated in 1983, has brought forth important conceptual statements by leading scholars in different disciplines touching on the field.
		A thrice-yearly newsletter, The Book, serves as the chief means by which the Program communicates with its various constituencies and publishes essay reviews and substantive pieces on research collections and on research in progress.
	www.americanantiquarian.org /hob.htm (494 words)

	Bad History in the Book of Daniel
		The writer demonstrated an ignorance of 6th-century Babylonian history that would not be expected of someone with the wisdom and political position that the book attributed to Daniel, who identified himself in several places as the author (7:2, 15; 8:1ff; 9:2; 10:2; etc).
		In the book of Daniel, however, the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar and Belshazzar are related in consecutive chapters.
		The book of Ezekiel claims that it was written by a captive priest in Babylon who began to receive his visions in the "fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity" (1:2).
	www.infidels.org /library/magazines/tsr/1998/4/984bad.html (3353 words)

	History of the Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This course, which is offered each Spring semester, explores the history of the book in the West from the invention of the alphabet to the advent of the electronic book.
		Topics considered include authorship, publication, manufacture, distribution, reception, and the survival of books.
		Using the facilities of the Spencer Library's Hole and Corner Press, students will learn the art of printing on a nineteenth-century handpress.
	www.ku.edu /~bookhist (75 words)

	A Brief History of the Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The incunabula (the first printed books) made knowledge accessible (sometimes in the vernacular) to scholars and laymen alike and liberated books from the scriptoria and "libraries" of monasteries.
		The plunge in book prices, the lowering of barriers to entry due to new technologies and plentiful credit, the proliferation of publishers, and the cutthroat competition among booksellers was such that price regulation (cartel) had to be introduced.
		Despite the technological breakthroughs that coalesced to form the modern printing press - printed books in the 17th and 18th centuries were derided by their contemporaries as inferior to their laboriously hand-made antecedents and to the incunabula.
	samvak.tripod.com /busiweb21.html (2373 words)

	JRULM: Special Collection Guide: History of the Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		From the earliest years of its existence, with the acquisition of the Spencer Collection, the John Rylands Library has housed one of the most important collections in the world relating to the birth and development of Western printing and the history of the book.
		As a whole the collection of early printed books constitutes one of the world's principal resources for the study of European publication of the classics of Greece and Rome, as well as of the writings of late medieval and early modern authors.
		An outstanding Private Press Collection (including complete or near-complete collections of books from the Kelmscott, Doves, Ashendene and Essex House Presses), is complemented by the Casdagli Collection of first editions and books from the Gregynog and Golden Cockerel Presses.
	rylibweb.man.ac.uk /data2/spcoll/inthist.html (1384 words)

	Everyman's History of the Book of Common Prayer
		In this 250-page book he gives an accessible account of the history and content of the Book of Common Prayer, as it existed in 1912 when the book was written.
		One can see from this book that the author was deeply appreciative of the tradition and sources of the Book of Common Prayer, but in no way blind to its shortcomings, as he perceived them.
		THIS little book cannot claim to be either "high-hurch" or low-church." It is written in the belief that both those party terms are becoming obsolete, and that the Churchman of the future will be content to be a faithful Christian, and an honest man, thinking highly of the Church and lowly of himself.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bcp/everyman_history (661 words)

	History of the Book \| The Printed Book \| Medieval Texts \| Questia.com Online Library
		Books and Their Makers during the Middle Ages: A Study of the Conditions of the Production and Distribution of Literature from the Fall of the Roman Empire to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Vol.
		At this stage in the history of book-production, the "producers...authoritative edition of a book which belongs to the distinctive literature not only of the...
		...material to be analysed in the present book is treated as phases and documents of a general history of the collecting, storing...rather in the area of cultural history...
	www.questia.com /CM.qst?D=se5&CRID=history_of_the_book (804 words)

	Humbul Humanities Hub : History of the Book topic
		The History of the Book topic brings together a sample of the records in Humbul relating to the history of writing, manuscripts, printed books, publishing and electronic books.
		We have gathered together a set of resources which are useful for undertaking research into the history of the book, printing and publishing.
		The English emblem book project is making available page images from a selection of books where the picture on each page are designed to lead the reader into the text.
	www.humbul.ac.uk /topics/hob.html (1075 words)

	Penn State Press Journals: Book History Main
		Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
		Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and reception of script and print.
		It will publish research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literary education, reading habits, and reader response.
	www.psupress.org /journals/jnls_book_history.html (183 words)

	A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer, by William Reed Huntington
		The first Book of Common Prayer was built up of blocks that for the most part had been previously used in other buildings, but the resulting structure exhibited, from the very moment it received a name, such distinct and unmistakable characteristics as have guaranteed it personal identity through more than three hundred years.
		First Book, as in the subsequent books down to 1662, is made a part of the Confirmation Office, although it does not clearly appear that the children were expected to say it as a preliminary to the service.
		The new features distinctive of the Prayer Book of Elizabeth, otherwise known as the Prayer Book of 1559, are not numerous.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bcp/short_history_BCP.htm (11607 words)

	The History and Future of the Book
		"The History and Future of the Book" (English 204.6) is one of the English Department's three Foundation Courses and is designed to introduce students to historical and contemporary developments in the technology and impact of the book.
		The book is also, as Cathy Davidson puts it, "both meaning...and the vehicle by which meaning is conveyed (the object of various enterprises of production, distribution, and consumption)" (Davidson, Reading in America, 15).
		The history of books is important not only because of the many mistaken reports in the 80s and 90s of the book's imminent demise.
	headlesschicken.ca /eng204 (407 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Cambridge History Of the Book in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Amazon.ca: Books: The Cambridge History Of the Book in Britain
		It is a tremendous achievement and is highly recommended." Speculum "The individual essays are admirable in their ability to cover their subjects in general and to demonstrate and elaborate in specific examples...The introduction to this volume is also well worth reading and re-reading.
		This volume traces the transition and discerns patterns of where, why and how books were written, printed, bound, acquired, read and passed from hand to hand with particular...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521573467 (407 words)

	Center For The Book Cosponsors American Book History Textbook
		Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary, a 461-page collection of primary source materials and original essays accompanied by a CD-ROM, has been published by the University of Massachusetts Press in association with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the American Antiquarian Society.
		"Encouraging the study of the history of books and print culture is a principal aim of the Center for the Book," said John Y. Cole, the center's director.
		Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary, is a volume in the University of Massachusetts Press series, Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book.; The paperbound edition (ISBN 1-55849-317-4) is available for $24.95 from the University of Massachusetts Press (www.umass.edu/umpress); the library cloth edition (ISBN 1-55849-316-6) is available for $70.
	www.loc.gov /today/pr/2002/02-085.html (287 words)

	A History of the Book in Scotland: Edinburgh University Press
		Book History is a growing area of interdisciplinary enquiry, drawing on the methods of Bibliography, Social History, Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory.
		Whether in the creation of early manuscripts, in the formation of libraries, through fine printing or the development of mass media, Scotland's contributions to the history of the book, both within the nation and beyond its boundaries, have been remarkable.
		To be published in four volumes by Edinburgh University Press, A History of the Book in Scotland is a major scholarly project whose aim is to investigate the history of the production, circulation, and reception of Scottish texts from earliest times to the present.
	www.englit.ed.ac.uk /research/histbook (229 words)

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