Some New Books About Books From the British Library

The New Testament 1526 A Facsimile
Edition translated by William Tyndale
Introduction by David Daniell

This volume is a complete facsimile of William Tyndale’s pioneering translation of the New Testament from Greek into English, held at the British Library, and only one of the two last copies remaining in the world.

Publishing September 2008
Co-published with Hendrickson Publishers, USA

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Books as History
The Importance of Books Beyond Their Texts
David Pearson

This text explores books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, and which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage.

Publishing June 2008
Published in N America by Oak Knoll Press

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Book Trade Connections
From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong

This ninth volume of the Print Network series contains twelve chapters from scholars working on the connections between the parties involved in the production of print artefacts, from author to printer, publisher, bookseller and reader.

Publishing June 2008
Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press

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Small books for the Common Man
A Descriptive Bibliography
Edited by John Meriton with the assistance of Carlo Dumontet

The hundred years prior to the mid-19th century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing. This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library’s collection of literary ephemera of the period: histories, tales, verse collections, primers and alphabets.

Publishing October 2008
Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press

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A Nation of Readers
The Lending Library in Georgian England
David Allan

This pioneering study explores the origins, organisation and impact of book clubs, reading societies, subscription libraries and circulating libraries in Georgian England, together with the opportunities increasingly offered to readers by a variety of other collections.

Published April 2008
Distributed in USA by U of Chicago Press

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Typeforms A History
Alan Bartram

This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type which Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, and placed in their historical background. Alan Bartram explores the correlation (or lack thereof) between the printed letterform and its parallel form in sculpture, engraving and other public spaces.

Published 2007
Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press

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The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America 1720 – 1920
Graham Hudson

This book discusses ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, process and period have affected the changing appearance of leaflets, tickets, posters, trade cards and other ephemera. Richly illustrated, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all those with an interest in the visual arts.

Published February 2008
Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press

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Fairs, Markets and the Itinerant Book Trade
Edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote

From the Frankfurt book fairs in the 16th century to the Farringdon Road barrows in the 20th, fairs and markets have played a crucial role in the circulation of books. In this volume, leading book historians investigate the presence of the book trade in the streets and public spaces of Europe.

Published 2007
Published in North America by Oak Knoll Press

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Literary Cultures and the Material Book
Edited by Simon Eliot, Andrew Nash and Ian Willison

The wide range covered by the thirty contributors to this book, from across the globe, is evidence of growing international interest in book history.

Published 2007
Distributed in USA by U of Chicago Press

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