Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830

Name: Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450-1830
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ISBN: 9780521618526

ISBN-10: 0521618525

ISBN-13: 9780521618526

Edition: 2006

Authors: David McKitterick

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This magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been termed the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested. From the 1450s onwards, the printed word and image became familiar in most of Europe. For authors, makers of books, and readers, manuscript and print were henceforth to be understood as complements to each other, rather than alternatives. But while printing seems to offer more textual and pictorial consistency than manuscripts, this was not always the case. McKitterick argues that book history…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/20/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.89" wide x 9.76" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

David McKitterick is the librarian of Trinity College, University of Cambridge.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations



The printed word and the modern bibliographer



Dependent skills



Pictures in motley



A house of errors



Perfect and imperfect



The art of printing



Re-evaluation: towards the modern book



Machinery and manufacture



Instabilities: the inherent and the deliberate


Notes


General index