Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary (New Directions in Book History)

by Adam Smyth (Editor), Gillian Partington (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $133.50

  This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.