| The
most
impressive of the longer entries are "The Ancient Book"
by Craig Dallendorf, "The Technologies of Print" (James
Mosley), "Printed Ephemera" (Michael Harris) and "The
Sacred Book" (Carl Olson, treating the five most
widespread religions), in which the available knowledge
is admirably condensed. ... Among the shorter
articles, I was particularly taken with the crisp
descriptions of lithography, composition and imposition,
intaglios and cancels, and the fluent accounts of
calligraphy (Nicolas Barker), encyclopaedias (Richard
Yeo), bilingual and monolingual dictionaries (Vincent
Giroud), grammars (Federica Ciccolella), books of hours
(Alixe Bovey), the samizdat
(Martin Dewhirst), and (required reading) Marcus Walsh
on the "history of the book" and Graham Law on
"reviewing in relation to consumption". Arthur Freeman, 'Rare, cheque, and bath', Times Literary Supplement,5 February 2010 |