How was the question of preservation approached historically? David McKitterick's lively and wide-ranging study explores how 'old books' have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day.
This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.
Studying examples from across Europe, he explores how this idea took shape in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how collectors, the book trade and libraries gradually came together to identify canons that often remain the same ...
The second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press covering the 1690s to 1872.
This is the first of three volumes concerning the history of the oldest press in the world,a history that extends from the sixteenth century to the present day.
The third and final volume of A History of Cambridge University Press, covering 1873-1972.
This second volume, a companion to the first by J. C. T. Oates, takes the history of the Library from the time of the Copyright Act of Queen Anne and the gift by King George I of the celebrated book collection of John Moore, Bishop of Ely, ...
This second volume of the history of Cambridge University Press deals with a period of fundamental change in printing, publishing and bookselling.
This is the first volume in a new three-volume history of the University Press, which will eventually bring the story as far as modern times: the next volume (on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) is in preparation.