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The British Library Publishing Division, 1993. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:0712302875
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A Potencie of Life: Books in Society Hardcover - 1995
by Nicolas Barker (Editor)
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- Title A Potencie of Life: Books in Society
- Author Nicolas Barker (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 216
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher British Library, London
- Date July 1995
- ISBN 9780712302876 / 0712302875
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93048413
- Dewey Decimal Code 002
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A Potencie of Life: Books in Society, The Clark Lectures 1986-1987
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A Potencie of Life: Books in Society : The Clark Lectures 1986-1987
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British Library, 1995. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, octavo, blue cloth lettered gilt to spine. A very good tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text, vi + 206pp.
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A Potencie of Life Books in Society. The Clark Lectures 1986-1987
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The British Library Publishing Division, 1993. Book measures 23.5x16.cm. vi, 206pp, illustrated. Bound in original publishers blue cloth, with gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Jacket in good clean condition. Internally, pages clean throughout. A very nice clean copy. . Hard Cover. Very Good Plus/Near Very Good. 8vo.
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A potencie of life : books in society : the Clark lectures, 1986-1987 / edited by Nicolas Barker
by Barker, Nicolas [editor]
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London New Castle, DE : British Library ; Oak Knoll Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; The British Library studies in the history of the book. Physical description; 206 pages : illustrations. Notes; Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA. Originally published: London : British Library, 1993. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction -- A new model for the study of the book -- The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris -- The codex in the fifteenth century : manuscript and print -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 -- Bookbinding and the history of books -- The ""trade of authorship"" in eighteenth-century Britain -- Mount and Page : publishers of eighteenth-century maritime books -- Libraries and the mind of man -- Appendix…
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A Potencie of Life. Books in Society. The Clark Lectures 1986-1987. (HARDCOVER)
by BARKER, Nicolas (edited by)
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The British Library, The British Library. 1993, vi,206pp. Illustrated. Cloth. In very good condition. "Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library in 1986-87, these essays discuss the many aspects of the history of the book, with a range of topics related to manuscripts as well as books. This is the second title in The British Library Studies in the History of the Book series. The introductory essay by Nicholas Barker and Thomas R. Adams discusses the influential communications circuit published in 1982 by Robert Darnton, which relates to many roles in the creation and distribution of books from author to reader. Advancing a new model for the study of the book which maps intellectual, social, political, legal, religious and commercial influences and pressures in relation to the key functions that collectively comprise publication, the essay serves as a manifesto with the aim of drawing historians and bibliographers closer to a common purpose. This title is intended for…
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