Influenced by Enlightenment principles and commercial transformations, the history of the book in the eighteenth century witnessed not only the final decades of the hand-press era but also developments and practices that pointed to its ...
This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing.
"Frames the history of the book within the globalisation of the media industries and the challenge to the cultural status of the book from electronic media in the twentieth century.