IntroductionSimon Eliot and Jonathan RosePart I Methods, Materials, and Readers1 BibliographyTony Edwards2 Textual ScholarshipDirk Van Hulle3 The Uses of QuantificationAlexis Weedon4 Palaeography and CodicologyJane Roberts and Pamela Robinson5 PaperMaureen Green6 Type, Typography, and the TypographerCaroline Archer-Parré7 Printing to 1970Rob Banham8 BindingNicholas Pickwoad9 Archives and PaperworkElizabeth Yale10 New Histories of LiteracyPatricia Crain11 Readers: Books and BiographyStephen Colclough and Edmund KingPart II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and BabyloniaEleanor Robson13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and RomeCornelia Römer14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100Michelle P. Brown15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100-1500M. T. ClanchyPart III The Book in the Wider World16 ChinaJ. S. Edgren17 Japan, Korea, and VietnamPeter Kornicki18 South AsiaGraham Shaw19 Latin AmericaHortensia Calvo20 The Hebraic BookEmile G. L. Schrijver21 Books in Arabic ScriptDagmar A. Riedel22 The Slavic BookEkaterina Rogatchevskaia23 AfricaElizabeth le Roux24 Canada and AustralasiaAlison RukavinaPart IV The Printed Book Predominant25 The Gutenberg RevolutionsLotte Hellinga26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth CenturyDavid J. Shaw27 The British Book Market 1600-1800John Feather28 Print and Public in Europe 1600-1800Rietje van Vliet29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800Russell L. Martin III30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800-1970Rob Banham31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890Simon Eliot32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800-1890Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890Robert A. Gross and Matt Cohen34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970David Finkelstein35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970Jonathan Rose36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970Adriaan van der Weel37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890-1970Beth Luey38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014Paul Luna39 The Global Market 1970-2014: ProducersIain Stevenson40 The Global Market 1970-2014: ConsumersClaire SquiresPart V Extending Print41 Periodicals and PeriodicityJames Wald42 The Importance of EphemeraHenry Raine43 Some Non-textual Uses of BooksRowan Watson44 The Book as ArtJae Jennifer Rossman45 The New Textual TechnologiesElena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes46 Scientific PublishingAileen Fyfe47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle AgesPeter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Sarah Tyacke48 Music and PrintRupert RidgewellPart VI Consequences49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary PropertyJohn Feather50 The Common WriterMartyn Lyons51 The Profession of AuthorshipRobert Griffin52 Lexicography: The Invention of LanguageDonna Farina53 Obscenity, Censorship, and ModernityDeana Heath54 Book Collectors and CollectionsEric J. Holzenberg55 Libraries and the Invention of InformationWayne A. WiegandCoda56 Does the Book Have a Future?Angus Phillips
Simon Eliot is Professor of the History of the Book at the Institute of English Studies, part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies.Jonathan Rose is William R. Kenan Professor of History at Drew University. He was the founding president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing and is co-editor of the journal Book History.