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Book History and Print Culture at the Millennium (March 2014): Works Cited

by James K. Bracken

Works Cited

Adamson, Judith.  Max Reinhardt: A Life in Publishing.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Are Books Becoming Extinct?, ed. by David Haugen and Susan Musser.  Greenhaven, 2012.

Bartram, Alan.  Five Hundred Years of Book Design.  Yale, 2001.

Basbanes, Nicholas A.  A Splendor of Letters: The Permanence of Books in an Impermanent World.  HarperCollins, 2003.

The Book History Reader, ed. by David Finkelstein and Alistair McCleery.  2nd ed.  Routledge, 2006.

A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing, ed. by Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay.  Granary Books, 2000.

Borgman, Christine L.  Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet.  MIT, 2007 (CH, Apr’08, 45-4424).

Briggs, Asa.  A History of Longmans and Their Books, 1724-1990: Longevity in Publishing.  London: British Library, 2008.

The British Book Trade: An Oral History, ed. by Sue Bradley.  London: British Library, 2008.

The British Book Trade, 1475-1890: A Bibliography, comp. by T. H. Howard-Hill.  2v.  Oak Knoll/British Library/Bibliographical Society/Bibliographical Society of America, 2009 (CH, Jul’09, 46-5930).

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (series), ed. by David McKitterick, I. R. Willison, D. F. McKenzie, John Barnard.  6v.  Cambridge, 1998-2012. Volume 7 forthcoming.

Carpenter, Humphrey.  The Seven Lives of John Murray: The Story of a Publishing Dynasty, 1768-2002, ed. by Candida Brazil and James Hamilton.  London: John Murray, 2008.

Carrière, Jean-Claude, and Umberto Eco.  This Is Not the End of the Book: A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe de Tonnac, tr. by Polly McLean.  London: Harvill Secker, 2011.

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A Companion to the History of the Book, ed. by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose.  Blackwell, 2007 (CH, Feb’08, 45-2928).

Consuming Books: The Marketing and Consumption of Literature, ed. by Stephen Brown.  Routledge, 2006.

Cowley, Des, and Clare Williamson.  The World of the Book.  Victoria: Miegunyah Press/State Library of Victoria, 2007.

Darnton, Robert.  The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future.  Public Affairs, 2009 (CH, Jun’10, 47-5364).

De Bellaigue, Eric.  British Book Publishing as a Business since the 1960s: Selected Essays.  London: British Library, 2004.

Deegan, Marilyn, and Kathryn Sutherland.  Transferred Illusions: Digital Technology and the Forms of Print.  Ashgate, 2009.

The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (series), ed. by Bill Bell, David Finkelstein, and Alistair McCleery.  Columbia, 2008.

The Enduring Book: Print Culture in Postwar America, edited by David Paul Nord, Joan Shelley Rubin, and Michael Schudson.  (History of the Book in America, v.5) North Carolina/American Antiquarian Society, 2009.

Epstein, Jason.  Book Business: Publishing, Past, Present, and Future.  Norton, 2001.

An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, edited by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley.  (History of the Book in America, v.2) North Carolina/American Antiquarian Society, 2010.

Finkelstein, David, and Alistair McCleery.  An Introduction to Book History.  Routledge, 2005; 2nd ed. 2012.

The Future of the Book in the Digital Age, ed. by Bill Cope and Angus Phillips.  Oxford: Chandos, 2006.

Garfield, Simon.  Just My Type: A Book about Fonts.  Gotham Books, 2010.

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A History of the Book in Australia (series), ed. by John Arnold et al.  Queensland University, 2001-.

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Lee, Marshall.  Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production.  3rd ed.  Norton, 2004 (CH, Oct’04, 42-0650).

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Loney, Alan.  The Books to Come.  Cuneiform Press, 2010.

Lupoff, Richard A.  The Great American Paperback: An Illustrated Tribute to the Legends of the Book.  1st American ed.  Collectors Press, 2001.

Lyons, Martyn.  Books: A Living History.  J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011 (CH, Mar’12, 49-3590).

Mak, Bonnie.  How the Page Matters.  Toronto, 2011.

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