The Story of Books
by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
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About this eBook
- Author
- Rawlings, Gertrude Burford
- Credits
- Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Jana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Printing -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 33413
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33413
- Release Date
- August 13, 2010
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE STORY OF BOOKS
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4.CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- 5.CHAPTER II THE PRESERVATION OF LITERATURE
- 6.CHAPTER III BOOKS AND LIBRARIES IN CLASSICAL TIMES
- 7.CHAPTER IV BOOKS IN MEDIÆVAL TIMES
- 8.CHAPTER V LIBRARIES IN MEDIÆVAL TIMES
- 9.CHAPTER VI THE BEGINNING OF PRINTING
- 10.CHAPTER VII WHO INVENTED MOVEABLE TYPES?
- 11.CHAPTER VIII GUTENBERG AND THE MENTZ PRESS
- 12.CHAPTER IX EARLY PRINTING
- 13.CHAPTER X EARLY PRINTING IN ITALY AND SOME OTHER COUNTRIES
- 14.CHAPTER XI EARLY PRINTING IN ENGLAND
- 15.CHAPTER XII EARLY PRINTING IN SCOTLAND
- 16.CHAPTER XIII EARLY PRINTING IN IRELAND
- 17.CHAPTER XIV BOOK BINDINGS
- 18.CHAPTER XV HOW A MODERN BOOK IS PRODUCED
- 19.AUTHOR'S POSTSCRIPT.
- 20.INDEX — A. — B. — C. — D. — E. — F. — G. — H. — I. — J. — K. — L. — M. — N. — O. — P. — R. — S. — T. — U. — V. — W. — Z.
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