The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the 14th and 18th Centuries: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe Between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries

by Roger Chartier (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1994

  $31.53

  Three major essays by the leading French historian of print culture examine the methods used in early modern Europe to bring some degree of control over the rapid proliferation of texts--as the hand-copied book was gradually replaced by books composed in movable type and printed on presses.