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Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.
Foreword / Henri-Jean Martin -- Preface / Lucien Febvre -- Manuscripts / Marcel Thomas -- 1. Preliminaries The Introduction of Paper into Europe -- 1.1 The Progress of Paper -- 1.2 Preconditions of the Growth of Paper-Making: Natural and Industrial -- 1.3 Commercial Factors -- 1.4 The Coming of Printing and the Development of the Paper Industry -- 2. The Technical Problems and Their Solution -- 2.1 The Wood-Cut, Ancestor of the Book? -- 2.2 The Discovery of Printing -- 2.3 The Making of the Type -- 2.4 Composition and Impression -- 2.5 Imposition -- 2.6 The Chinese Precedent -- 3. The Book: Its Visual Appearance -- 3.1 Type Fonts -- 3.2 Inside the Book: Title Page, Colophon and Printer's Mark -- 3.3 The Text and Format of the Book -- 3.4 Illustration -- 3.5 Clothing the Book: The Binding -- 4. The Book as a Commodity -- 4.1 Costs -- 4.2 The Problem of Finance -- 5. The Little World of the Blood -- 5.1 The Journeymen -- 5.2 The Masters -- 5.3 From the Humanist printer to the Bookseller of the Enlightenment -- 5.4 Authors and their Rights -- 6. The Geography of the Book -- 6.1 The Journeys of Printers -- 6.2 Places to Set Up Business - 6.3 Geography and Publishing -- 6.4 Printing Conquers the World: The Slav countries; The new world; The Far East -- 7. The Book Trade -- 7.1 Some Basic Data: Sizes of Editions -- 7.2 Some Problems for the Trade -- 7.3 Business Methods at the Time of the Book-Fairs -- 7.4 Towards New Business Methods -- 7.5 Privilege and Privacy -- 7.6 Censorship and Banned Books -- 8. The Book as a Force for Change -- 8.1 Form Manuscript to Printed Book -- 8.2 Humanism and the Book -- 8.3 The Book and the Reformation -- 8.4 Printing and Language.
Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin ; translated by David Gerard.
First published as "L'Apparition du livre" by Éditions Albin Michel (Paris, 1958)
First published in English: London : New Left Books, ©1976.
Edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-354) and index.