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OWNERS, ANNOTATORS AND THE SIGNS OF READING
Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (Editors)
with The Publishing Pathways Series Cumulative Index

- New Castle, Delaware, and London, UK : Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005 - 8vo. - cloth, dust jacket - 248 pages with 40 b/w illustrations - ISBN 9781584561712 ; 1584561718 / Order Nr. 89478 - Price: $ 45.00

Part of the Publishing Pathways Series. Reading, and the manifold signs of reading, have become one of the most dynamic areas of research in book history. The reader as consumer and owner, as well as participant in the construction of new meanings, is the subject of these original essays. Specialists in literature, art history and book history investigate the annotations, marginal marks, extra-illustration and other forms of evidence left by readers. Through an examination of the book as a physical object, the contributors provide a range of intriguing insights into the ways in which this internalized and ephemeral activity can be understood in the context of book-trade history. Available in the UK from The British Library.

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> Coakley, J.F., THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.
> Myers, Robin, SPREADING THE WORD, THE DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS OF PRINT 1550-1850.
> Symons, Julian, DOES LITERATURE EXIST?

THE MILL AND US. by Garrett, Florence Rome First edition. One of 450 copies printed by this private press of which this is one of 25 copies to be in a special binding and contains a specimen of paper made at the mill. A charming essay about the joys and pitfalls of starting a papermaking mill. The book is illustrated by Elmer Garrett. Presentation on the half-title. Loosely inserted is a prospectus to the book, a signed poem by Garrett, a large newspaper clipping giving us history of the mill and two newspaper clippings listing the sale price of the mill.