BOOKS AS HISTORY. The importance of books beyond their texts

by David Pearson

A$120 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller

First edition

Pp. 208, illustrated in colour and black & white, index; narrow cr. 4to; black boards, spine lettered in silver; marbled endpapers; dust wrapper, a trifle scuffed; British Library/Oak Knoll Press, London & New Castle De., 2008. First edition. *'People usually think of books in terms of their contents, their texts, with less thought for books as artifacts. In fact books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects,

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