Title The book through five thousand years : a survey / by Fernand Baudin ... [and others] ; edited by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet ; introduced by Herman Liebaers; afterword by Ruari McLean

Published London ; New York : Phaidon, [1972] London, UK : Phaidon Press, 1972 ©1972

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Description 496 pages : illustrations (part color), facsimiles (part color), plates ; 31 cm Contents Introduction / Herman Liebaers -- Writing / David Diringer -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt -- The Maya and Aztec scripts -- Hebrew writing and the Hebrew book / David Diringer -- Islam / Norah M. Titley -- Central Asia / Emel Esin -- The manuscripts of Christian Asia / Richard F. Hosking -- The book in China / Martin Gimm -- The book in Japan / Kenneth Gardner -- Manuscripts of India, Ceylon, and South-East Asia / Albertine Gaur -- Illustrated rolls and codices in Greco-Roman antiquity / Kurt Weitzmann -- Byzantine manuscripts / Charles Delvoye -- Medieval illumination / Andre Boutemy -- Gothic manuscripts in England / Nigel J. Morgan -- French Gothic manuscripts / Marcel Thomas -- Gothic manuscripts in Belgium and the Netherlands / Antoine de Schryver -- Gothic manuscripts in Germany / Paul Pieper -- Italian Gothic manuscripts / L. Michelini Tocci -- Italian Renaissance miniatures / Mgr. J. Ruysschaert -- Medieval bookbinding / Otto Mazal -- Xylographic books / Heinrich T. Musper -- Johannes Gutenberg / Helmut Presser -- Printing in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Hendrik D.L. Vervliet -- Development of the fine book after 1600: Typography / Fernand Baudin. The illustrated book / Claudine Lemaire -- Bookbinding from the sixteenth century to the present / Paul Culot -- Afterword : the book as object / Ruari McLean The prehistory of books and writing -- The book in the Orient -- The manuscript in the West -- The printed book in the West Summary This book denotes a prehistory of books and writing through the years and is brilliantly illustrated Analysis Books, to 1971 Notes Some col. ill. tipped in Translation of "Liber Librorum: 5000 ans d'art du Libre". Bruxelles [Brussels]: Editions Arcade, 1972. - Originally published in Dutch, English, French, German and Italian Bibliography Includes bibliographies Subject Bibliography -- History. Books -- History. Printing -- History. Author Baudin, Fernand. Vervliet, Hendrik D. L. LC no. 72080697 ISBN 0714815535

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