IntroductionSimon Eliot and Jonathan Rose Part I Methods, Materials, and Readers 1 BibliographyTony Edwards 2 Textual ScholarshipDirk Van Hulle 3 The Uses of QuantificationAlexis Weedon 4 Palaeography and CodicologyJane Roberts and Pamela Robinson 5 PaperMaureen Green 6 Type, Typography, and the TypographerCaroline Archer-Parré 7 Printing to 1970Rob Banham 8 BindingNicholas Pickwoad 9 Archives and PaperworkElizabeth Yale 10 New Histories of LiteracyPatricia Crain 11 Readers: Books and BiographyStephen Colclough and Edmund King Part II The Manuscript Book in Europe and the Middle East 12 The Clay Tablet Book in Sumer, Assyria, and BabyloniaEleanor Robson 13 The Papyrus Roll in Egypt, Greece, and RomeCornelia Römer 14 The Triumph of the Codex: The Manuscript Book before 1100Michelle P. Brown 15 Parchment and Paper: Manuscript Culture 1100–1500M. T. Clanchy Part III The Book in the Wider World 16 ChinaJ. S. Edgren 17 Japan, Korea, and VietnamPeter Kornicki 18 South AsiaGraham Shaw 19 Latin AmericaHortensia Calvo 20 The Hebraic BookEmile G. L. Schrijver 21 Books in Arabic ScriptDagmar A. Riedel 22 The Slavic BookEkaterina Rogatchevskaia 23 AfricaElizabeth le Roux 24 Canada and AustralasiaAlison Rukavina Part IV The Printed Book Predominant 25 The Gutenberg RevolutionsLotte Hellinga 26 The Book Trade Comes of Age: The Sixteenth CenturyDavid J. Shaw 27 The British Book Market 1600–1800John Feather    28 Print and Public in Europe 1600–1800Rietje van Vliet 29 North America and Transatlantic Book Culture to 1800Russell L. Martin III  30 The Industrialization of the Book 1800–1970Rob Banham 31 From Few and Expensive to Many and Cheap: The British Book Market 1800-1890Simon Eliot 32 A Continent of Texts: Europe 1800–1890Jean-Yves Mollier and Marie-Françoise Cachin 33 Building a National Literature: The United States 1800-1890Robert A. Gross and Matt Cohen 34 The Globalization of the Book 1800-1970David Finkelstein 35 Modernity and Print I: Britain 1890-1970Jonathan Rose 36 Modernity and Print II: Europe 1890-1970Adriaan van der Weel 37 Modernity and Print III: The United States 1890–1970Beth Luey 38 Books and Bits: Texts and Technology 1970-2014Paul Luna 39 The Global Market 1970-2014: ProducersIain Stevenson 40 The Global Market 1970-2014: ConsumersClaire Squires Part V Extending Print 41 Periodicals and PeriodicityJames Wald 42 The Importance of EphemeraHenry Raine 43 Some Non-textual Uses of BooksRowan Watson 44 The Book as ArtJae Jennifer Rossman 45 The New Textual TechnologiesElena Pierazzo and Peter Stokes 46 Scientific PublishingAileen Fyfe 47 Maps and their Readers since the Middle AgesPeter Barber, Catherine Delano-Smith, and Sarah Tyacke 48 Music and PrintRupert Ridgewell Part VI Consequences 49 Copyright and the Creation of Literary PropertyJohn Feather 50 The Common WriterMartyn Lyons 51 The Profession of AuthorshipRobert Griffin 52 Lexicography: The Invention of LanguageDonna Farina 53 Obscenity, Censorship, and ModernityDeana Heath 54 Book Collectors and CollectionsEric J. Holzenberg 55 Libraries and the Invention of InformationWayne A. Wiegand Coda 56 Does the Book Have a Future?Angus Phillips

The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded  The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography. The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. The expert contributions also delve into the fascinating accounts of topics such as archives and paperwork, and present new chapters on Arabic script, the Slavic, Canadian, African and Australasian book, new textual technologies, and much more. Containing a wealth of illustrative examples and case studies to dramatize the exciting history of the book, the text is designed for academics, students and anyone interested in the subject.