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Print Culture & the History of the Book
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The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800
by:
Lucien Febvre
3.96 avg rating β 299 ratings
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The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and Literary Treasures
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Library of Congress
4.07 avg rating β 1,270 ratings
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The Book in the Renaissance
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Andrew Pettegree
3.98 avg rating β 252 ratings
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Graphic Design Before Graphic Designers: The Printer as Designer and Craftsman: 1700-1914
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David Jury
4.48 avg rating β 25 ratings
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The Tyranny of Printers: Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic
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Jeffrey L. Pasley
3.86 avg rating β 59 ratings
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Geographies of the Book
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Charles W.J. Withers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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The Lost World of the Craft Printer
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Maggie Holtzberg-Call
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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London Book Trade: Topographies of Print in the Metropolis from the Sixteenth Century
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Robin Myers
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Graven Images: The Rise of Professional Printmakers in Antwerp and Haarlem, 1540-1640
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Larry Silver
4.67 avg rating β 3 ratings
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American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853
by:
Meredith L. McGill
3.70 avg rating β 20 ratings
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The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture
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George Bornstein
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Print and Protestantism in Early Modern England
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Ian M. Green
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History
by:
Rebecca Romney
3.83 avg rating β 623 ratings
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The Business of Enlightenment: Publishing History of the "EncyclopΓ©die," 1775-1800
by:
Robert Darnton
3.79 avg rating β 42 ratings
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Purity in Print: Book Censorship in America from the Gilded Age to the Computer Age
by:
Paul S. Boyer
3.83 avg rating β 29 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to the Book
by:
Michael F. Suarez
4.43 avg rating β 23 ratings
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Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression
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David Welky
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 13 ratings
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Jonathan Edwards and Transatlantic Print Culture
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Jonathan M. Yeager
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Comics and the City: Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence
by:
JΓΆrn Ahrens
3.18 avg rating β 17 ratings
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South African Textual Cultures: White, Black, Read all Over
by:
Andrew Van der Vlies
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
by:
Nicholas A. Basbanes
3.93 avg rating β 386 ratings
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The Textual Condition
by:
Jerome J. McGann
3.61 avg rating β 54 ratings
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From Still Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London
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Joseph Monteyne
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts
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D.F. McKenzie
3.77 avg rating β 84 ratings
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The Printed Image in Early Modern London
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Joseph Monteyne
4.50 avg rating β 2 ratings
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Revolution and the Antiquarian Book: Reshaping the Past, 1780β1815
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Kristian Jensen
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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A Book of Book Lists
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Alex Johnson
3.47 avg rating β 415 ratings
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Volume II: Communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe
by:
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
4.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World
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Nicholas A. Basbanes
4.11 avg rating β 397 ratings
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The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Volume I: Communications and cultural transformations in early-modern Europe
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Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
4.12 avg rating β 8 ratings
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Americanon: An Unexpected U.S. History in Thirteen Bestselling Books
by:
Jess McHugh
3.91 avg rating β 432 ratings
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The First John Murray and the Late Eighteenth-Century London Book Trade (British Academy Monographs)
by:
William Zachs
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Around the World in 80 Books
by:
David Damrosch
3.64 avg rating β 664 ratings
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An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students
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Ronald Brunlees McKerrow
4.04 avg rating β 28 ratings
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The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History
by:
Edward Brooke-Hitching
4.24 avg rating β 1,810 ratings
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A New Introduction to Bibliography
by:
Philip Gaskell
3.73 avg rating β 225 ratings
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A History of Children's Books in 100 Books
by:
Roderick Cave
3.66 avg rating β 50 ratings
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The Kiss of Lamourette: Reflections in Cultural History
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Robert Darnton
3.92 avg rating β 90 ratings
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Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
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Richard Ovenden
3.72 avg rating β 1,662 ratings
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The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
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Robert Darnton
3.90 avg rating β 262 ratings
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Remarkable Books: The World's Most Beautiful and Historic Works
by:
Michael Collins
4.24 avg rating β 632 ratings
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Principles of Bibliographical Description (St. Paul's Bibliographies ; 15)
by:
Fredson Bowers
3.96 avg rating β 57 ratings
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Bookshops: A Reader's History
by:
Jorge CarriΓ³n
3.56 avg rating β 919 ratings
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The Books that Shaped Art History: From Gombrich and Greenberg to Alpers and Krauss
by:
Richard Shone
3.84 avg rating β 81 ratings
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Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn
by:
Sarah J. Boykin
3.60 avg rating β 5 ratings
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The Bookshop of the World: Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
by:
Andrew Pettegree
4.02 avg rating β 132 ratings
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The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy
by:
Daniel Kalder
3.63 avg rating β 477 ratings
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Scientifica Historica: How the world's great science books chart the history of knowledge
by:
Brian Clegg
4.11 avg rating β 93 ratings
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The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850
by:
James Raven
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Books of the Dead
by:
Stanislav Grof
3.67 avg rating β 52 ratings
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Qur'ans: Books of Divine Encounter
by:
Keith E. Small
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
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The 10 Cent War: Comic Books, Propaganda, and World War II
by:
Trischa Goodnow
3.60 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Bookshelf
by:
Alex Johnson
3.73 avg rating β 271 ratings
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The Jemima Code: Two Centuries of African American Cookbooks
by:
Toni Tipton-Martin
4.17 avg rating β 385 ratings
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Graphic Borders: Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future (World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series)
by:
Frederick Luis Aldama
3.67 avg rating β 6 ratings
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Legible Religion: Books, Gods, and Rituals in Roman Culture
by:
Duncan MacRae
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Inside the Rainbow: Russian Children's Literature 1920-1935: Beautiful Books, Terrible Times
by:
Julian Rothenstein
4.38 avg rating β 47 ratings
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The History of the Book in 100 Books: The Complete Story, From Egypt to E-Book
by:
Roderick Cave
3.83 avg rating β 191 ratings
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
by:
Kristen Hogan
3.84 avg rating β 83 ratings
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Bookshelf
by:
Lydia Pyne
3.51 avg rating β 241 ratings
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The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
by:
Elif Batuman
3.71 avg rating β 5,946 ratings
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Bizarre Books
by:
Russell Ash
3.57 avg rating β 297 ratings
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Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation: A Political History of Comic Books in Mexico
by:
Anne Rubenstein
3.88 avg rating β 40 ratings
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100 Books Every Folk Music Fan Should Own (Best Music Books)
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Dick Weissman
liked it 3.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II
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Molly Guptill Manning
3.92 avg rating β 8,412 ratings
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Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, the Fugs & Counterculture in the Lower East Side
by:
Ed Sanders
4.12 avg rating β 154 ratings
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The Book on the Bookshelf
by:
Henry Petroski
3.75 avg rating β 1,475 ratings
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Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
by:
Jenny Bond
3.40 avg rating β 525 ratings
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The Book of Lost Books: An Incomplete History of All the Great Books You'll Never Read
by:
Stuart Kelly
3.47 avg rating β 853 ratings
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Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
by:
Bart D. Ehrman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 2,378 ratings
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Reading Jackie: Her Autobiography in Books
by:
William Kuhn
3.68 avg rating β 952 ratings
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Grimoires: A History of Magic Books
by:
Owen Davies
4.03 avg rating β 604 ratings
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My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop
by:
Ronald Rice
3.88 avg rating β 1,145 ratings
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Alia's Mission: Saving the Books of Iraq
by:
Mark Alan Stamaty
3.80 avg rating β 610 ratings
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The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh
by:
David Damrosch
3.63 avg rating β 727 ratings
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The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography
by:
Alan Jacobs
4.23 avg rating β 534 ratings
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Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
by:
Dennis Duncan
3.67 avg rating β 2,305 ratings