Literature and Artifacts

First edition. Fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects primarily manuscripts and printed books that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography," "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute," and "Printing History and Other History." xvii, 355 pages. cloth.. 8vo..