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The Oxford companion to the book, Edited by Michael F. Suarez and H. R. Woudhuysen, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. 2 vols. ill. ISBN 9780198606536 (hardcover). £195.00/$345.00

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Martin Antonetti
Martin Antonetti*
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Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College, Northampton, MA 01063, USA
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , 2011 , pp. 53 - 54
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2011

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References

1. Darnton, Robert, ‘The library: three jeremiads,’ New York review of booh 57 (December 23, 2010): 22–26.Google Scholar
2. A wonderful introduction to this new field is Howsam, Leslie, Old booh and new histories: an orientation to studies in book and print culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006).Google Scholar
3. See Illich, Ivan, In the vineyard of the text (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).Google Scholar
4. There are in addition several works of this scope in other languages, the Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens (first published in 1935-7; the 2nd edition, begun in 1985 will shortly be completed with the publication of volume 8), Hiller and Füssell’s Wörterbuch des Buches (6th edition 2002), and the Dictionnaire encyclopédique du livre (first volume published in 2002, but not yet complete) are the most important among them.Google Scholar