The book : a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time /

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Author / Creator:Houston, Keith, 1977- author.
Edition:First edition.
Imprint:New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2016]
Description:xvii, 428 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Language:English
Subject:Books -- History.
Printing -- History.
Books and reading -- History.
Paper.
Books.
Illustration of books.
Printing.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10877300
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ISBN:9780393244793
0393244792
Summary:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-401) and index.
Reveals how books and the materials that make them reflect the history of human civilization, tracing the development of writing, printing, illustrating, and binding to demonstrate the transition from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the mass-distributed books of today.