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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Description"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 Description </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Description-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Book_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Book_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.3 Book culture </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Book_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Proliferation_and_conservation_of_books_in_Greece" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Proliferation_and_conservation_of_books_in_Greece"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.4 Proliferation and conservation of books in Greece </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Proliferation_and_conservation_of_books_in_Greece-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Book_production_in_Rome" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Book_production_in_Rome"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.5 Book production in Rome </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Book_production_in_Rome-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Paper" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Paper"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 Paper </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Paper-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Middle_Ages" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Middle_Ages"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Middle Ages </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Middle_Ages-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Middle Ages subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Middle_Ages-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Books_in_monasteries" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Books_in_monasteries"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.1 Books in monasteries </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Books_in_monasteries-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Copying_and_conserving_books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Copying_and_conserving_books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.2 Copying and conserving books </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Copying_and_conserving_books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-The_scriptorium" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_scriptorium"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.3 The scriptorium </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_scriptorium-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Transformation_from_the_literary_edition_in_the_12th_century" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Transformation_from_the_literary_edition_in_the_12th_century"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8.4 Transformation from the literary edition in the 12th century </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Transformation_from_the_literary_edition_in_the_12th_century-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Printing_press" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Printing_press"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Printing press </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Printing_press-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Western_Asia_and_North_Africa" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Western_Asia_and_North_Africa"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 10 Western Asia and North Africa </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Western_Asia_and_North_Africa-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Western Asia and North Africa subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Western_Asia_and_North_Africa-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Early_period" class="vector-toc-list-item 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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-South_Asia" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#South_Asia"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11 South Asia </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-South_Asia-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle South Asia subsection </button> <ul id="toc-South_Asia-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Early_manuscripts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Early_manuscripts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.1 Early manuscripts </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Early_manuscripts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Mughal_Era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mughal_Era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 11.2 Mughal Era </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mughal_Era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Modern_Era" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Modern_Era"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Modern Era </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Modern_Era-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Modern Era subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Modern_Era-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_Late_Modern_Period" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_Late_Modern_Period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.1 The Late Modern Period </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_Late_Modern_Period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Contemporary_Period" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Contemporary_Period"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.2 Contemporary Period </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Contemporary_Period-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-E-books_and_the_future_of_the_book" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#E-books_and_the_future_of_the_book"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12.3 E-books and the future of the book </div> </a> <ul id="toc-E-books_and_the_future_of_the_book-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Reading_for_the_blind" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Reading_for_the_blind"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 Reading for the blind </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Reading_for_the_blind-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Reading for the blind subsection </button> <ul id="toc-Reading_for_the_blind-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-The_making_of_Braille" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#The_making_of_Braille"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13.1 The making of Braille </div> </a> <ul id="toc-The_making_of_Braille-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spoken_books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spoken_books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13.2 Spoken books </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spoken_books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Academic_study" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Academic_study"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Academic study </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Academic_study-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gallery" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gallery"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 15 Gallery </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gallery-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div 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Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="বইয়ের ইতিহাস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hist%C3%B2ria_del_llibre" title="Història del llibre – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Història del llibre" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boghistorie" title="Boghistorie – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Boghistorie" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchgeschichte" title="Buchgeschichte – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Buchgeschichte" 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href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BD_%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%85%D1%8B" title="Китептин тарыхы – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Китептин тарыхы" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%AC%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82_%E0%A8%A6%E0%A8%BE_%E0%A8%87%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%B9%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B8" title="ਕਿਤਾਬਾਂ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕਿਤਾਬਾਂ ਦਾ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_ksi%C4%85%C5%BCki" title="Historia książki – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Historia książki" 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class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG/220px-Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG/330px-Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG/440px-Printing3_Walk_of_Ideas_Berlin.JPG 2x" data-file-width="540" data-file-height="720" /></a><figcaption>12-metre-high (40 ft) sculpture of a stack of books at the Berlin <a href="/wiki/Walk_of_Ideas" title="Walk of Ideas">Walk of Ideas</a>, commemorating the <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" title="Johannes Gutenberg">invention of modern book printing</a></figcaption></figure> The history of books starts with the <a href="/wiki/History_of_writing" title="History of writing">development of writing</a>, and various other inventions such as <a href="/wiki/Paper" title="Paper">paper</a> and <a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a>, and continues through to the modern-day business of <a href="/wiki/Book_printing" class="mw-redirect" title="Book printing">book printing</a>. The earliest knowledge society has on the history of books actually predates what would conventionally be called "books" today and begins with <a href="/wiki/Clay_tablet" title="Clay tablet">tablets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Scroll" title="Scroll">scrolls</a>, and sheets of <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">papyrus</a>. The current format that we consider to be books, with separate sheets fastened together rather than a scroll, is called a <a href="/wiki/Codex" title="Codex">codex</a>. Then hand-bound, expensive, and elaborate <a href="/wiki/Manuscript" title="Manuscript">manuscripts</a> appeared in codex form. These gave way to <a href="/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">press-printed</a> volumes and eventually led to the mass-printed volumes prevalent today. Contemporary books may even have no physical presence with the advent of the <a href="/wiki/E-book" class="mw-redirect" title="E-book">e-book</a>. The book also became more accessible to the disabled with the advent of <a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a> and <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a>. The earliest forms of writing were etched on stone slabs, transitioning to palm leaves and papyrus in ancient times. Parchment and paper later emerged as important substrates for bookmaking, introducing greater durability and accessibility. Across regions like China, the Middle East, Europe, and South Asia, diverse methods of book production evolved. The Middle Ages saw the rise of illuminated manuscripts, intricately blending text and imagery, particularly during the Mughal era in South Asia under the patronage of rulers like Akbar and Shah Jahan. Prior to the invention of the printing press, made famous by the <a href="/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible" title="Gutenberg Bible">Gutenberg Bible</a>, each text was a unique handcrafted valuable article, personalized through the design features incorporated by the scribe, owner, bookbinder, and illustrator.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> The invention of the printing press in the 15th century marked a pivotal moment, revolutionizing book production. Innovations like movable type and steam-powered presses accelerated manufacturing processes and contributed to increased literacy rates. Copyright protection also emerged, securing authors' rights and shaping the publishing landscape. The Late Modern Period introduced chapbooks, catering to a wider range of readers, and mechanization of the printing process further enhanced efficiency. The 20th century witnessed the advent of typewriters, computers, and desktop publishing, transforming document creation and printing. Digital advancements in the 21st century led to the rise of <a href="/wiki/Ebook" title="Ebook">ebooks</a>, propelled by the popularity of ereaders and accessibility features. While discussions about the potential decline of physical books have surfaced, print media has proven remarkably resilient, continuing to thrive as a multi-billion dollar industry. Additionally, efforts to make literature more inclusive emerged, with the development of Braille for the visually impaired and the creation of spoken books, providing alternative ways for individuals to access and enjoy literature. The study of book history became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Contributions to the field have come from <a href="/wiki/Textual_scholarship" title="Textual scholarship">textual scholarship</a>, <a href="/wiki/Codicology" title="Codicology">codicology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bibliography" title="Bibliography">bibliography</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philology" title="Philology">philology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Palaeography" title="Palaeography">palaeography</a>, <a href="/wiki/Art_history" title="Art history">art history</a>, <a href="/wiki/Social_history" title="Social history">social history</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cultural_history" title="Cultural history">cultural history</a>. It aims to demonstrate that the book as an object, not just the text contained within it, is a conduit of interaction between readers and words. Analysis of each component part of the book can reveal its purpose, where and how it was kept, who read it, ideological and <a href="/wiki/Religious_beliefs" class="mw-redirect" title="Religious beliefs">religious beliefs</a> of the period, and whether readers interacted with the text within. Even a lack of such evidence can leave valuable clues about the nature of a particular book. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Clay_tablets">Clay tablets</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Clay tablets">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Clay_tablet" title="Clay tablet">Clay tablet</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih,_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum,_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG/220px-Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="287" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG/330px-Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG/440px-Tablet_describing_goddess_Inanna%27s_battle_with_the_mountain_Ebih%2C_Sumerian_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum%2C_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07117.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3509" data-file-height="4571" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumerian</a> <a href="/wiki/Clay_tablet" title="Clay tablet">clay tablet</a>, currently housed in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Oriental_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Chicago Oriental Institute">Oriental Institute</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, inscribed with the text of the poem <a href="/wiki/Inanna#Justice_myths" title="Inanna">Inanna and Ebih</a> by the priestess <a href="/wiki/Enheduanna" title="Enheduanna">Enheduanna</a>, the first author whose name is known<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></figcaption></figure> Clay tablets were used in <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> in the 3rd millennium <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">BCE</a>. The calamus, an instrument with a triangular point, was used to inscribe characters in moist clay. Fire was used to dry the tablets out. At <a href="/wiki/Nineveh" title="Nineveh">Nineveh</a>, over 20,000 tablets have been found, dating from the 7th century BCE; this was the <a href="/wiki/Archive" title="Archive">archive</a> and <a href="/wiki/Library" title="Library">library</a> of the kings of <a href="/wiki/Assyria" title="Assyria">Assyria</a>, who had workshops of <a href="/wiki/Copyists" class="mw-redirect" title="Copyists">copyists</a> and conservationists at their disposal. This presupposes a degree of organization of books, consideration given to conservation, <a href="/wiki/Classification" title="Classification">classification</a>, etc. Such tablets continued to be used until the 19th century in various parts of the world, including Germany, Chile, Philippines, and the Sahara Desert.<a href="#cite_note-Needham5-3">[3]</a><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuneiform_and_Sumerian_writing">Cuneiform and Sumerian writing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cuneiform and Sumerian writing">edit</a>]</div> Writing originated as a form of record-keeping in <a href="/wiki/Sumer" title="Sumer">Sumer</a> during the fourth millennium BCE<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-tablets-6">[6]</a> with the advent of <a href="/wiki/Cuneiform" title="Cuneiform">cuneiform</a>. Many clay tablets have been found that show <a href="/wiki/Cuneiform_writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Cuneiform writing">cuneiform writing</a> used to record legal contracts, create lists of assets, and eventually record Sumerian literature and myths. <a href="/wiki/Archaeologists" class="mw-redirect" title="Archaeologists">Archaeologists</a> have found scribal schools from as early as the second millennium BCE, where students were taught the art of writing. Developed in what is now Iraq,<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> "cuneiform" script was later named after the Latin word cuneus, meaning wedge-shaped.<a href="#cite_note-auto-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-tablets-6">[6]</a> Scribes often wrote cuneiform on clay, but sometimes they used precious materials such as gold.<a href="#cite_note-tablets-6">[6]</a> Cuneiform was written in different languages, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, and Greek, for more than three thousand years, ending only when the Sassanian Empire conquered Babylon and forced the scribes to stop writing.<a href="#cite_note-auto-8">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> Some of the surviving cuneiform tablets were written by student scribes.<a href="#cite_note-tablets-6">[6]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Papyrus">Papyrus</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Papyrus">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">Papyrus</a></div> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg/300px-Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="137" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg/450px-Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg/600px-Book_of_the_Dead_of_Hunefer_sheet_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2212" data-file-height="1011" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead" title="Book of the Dead">Book of the Dead</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hunefer" title="Hunefer">Hunefer</a>, c. 1275 BCE, ink and pigments on papyrus, in the <a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a> (London)</figcaption></figure> After extracting the marrow from the stems of papyrus reed, a series of steps (humidification, pressing, drying, gluing, and cutting) produced media of variable quality, the best being used for sacred writing.<a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> In <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt" title="Ancient Egypt">Ancient Egypt</a>, papyrus was used as a medium for writing surfaces, maybe as early as the <a href="/wiki/First_Dynasty_of_Egypt" title="First Dynasty of Egypt">First Dynasty</a>, but first evidence is from the account books of King <a href="/wiki/Neferirkare_Kakai" title="Neferirkare Kakai">Neferirkare Kakai</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Dynasty" class="mw-redirect" title="Fifth Dynasty">Fifth Dynasty</a> (about 2400 BCE).<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> A calamus, the stem of a reed sharpened to a point, or bird feathers were used for writing. The script of Egyptian <a href="/wiki/Scribes" class="mw-redirect" title="Scribes">scribes</a> was called <a href="/wiki/Hieratic" title="Hieratic">hieratic</a>, or sacerdotal writing; it is not <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyphic</a>, but a simplified form more adapted to manuscript writing (hieroglyphs usually being engraved or painted). Egyptians exported papyrus to other Mediterranean civilizations including Greece and Rome where it was used until <a href="/wiki/Parchment" title="Parchment">parchment</a> was developed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyons201121-12">[12]</a> <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">Papyrus</a> books were in the form of a <a href="/wiki/Scroll" title="Scroll">scroll</a> of several sheets pasted together, for a total length of 10 meters or more. Some books, such as the history of the reign of <a href="/wiki/Ramses_III" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramses III">Ramses III</a>, were over 40 meters long. Books rolled out horizontally; the text occupied one side and was divided into columns. The title was indicated by a label attached to the cylinder containing the book. Many papyrus texts come from tombs, where prayers and sacred texts were deposited (such as the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead" title="Book of the Dead">Book of the Dead</a>, from the early 2nd millennium BCE). Papyrus was a common substrate to be used as notarial documents, tax registries, and legal contracts.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> Scrolls were typically held vertically to be read and text was written in long columns. Literary texts, on the other hand, were traditionally transcribed into the codex form.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> After the latter half of the 10th century <a href="/wiki/Common_Era" title="Common Era">CE</a>, leftover papyrus in Egypt was often used by bookbinders for making book covers since paper had replaced papyrus as the dominant substrate for books.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="East_Asia">East Asia</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: East Asia">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg/170px-Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="197" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg/255px-Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg/340px-Bamboo_book_-_binding_-_UCR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1866" data-file-height="2160" /></a><figcaption>A Chinese bamboo book</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg/220px-Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="282" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg/330px-Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg/440px-Chinese_bookseller_1824_V1-FL14863983.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1343" data-file-height="1721" /></a><figcaption>Chinese Bookseller, illustration, c. 1824</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="China">China</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: China">edit</a>]</div> Before the introduction of books, writing on <a href="/wiki/Oracle_bone" title="Oracle bone">bone</a>, shells, <a href="/wiki/Bamboo_and_wooden_slips" title="Bamboo and wooden slips">wood</a> and silk was prevalent in China long before the 2nd century BCE, until paper was invented in China around the 1st century CE. China's first recognizable books called jiance or jiandu, were made of rolls of thin split and dried bamboo bound together with hemp, silk, or leather.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyons201118-14">[14]</a> The discovery of the process using the bark of the <a href="/wiki/Mulberry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulberry">mulberry</a> to create paper is attributed to <a href="/wiki/Cai_Lun" title="Cai Lun">Cai Lun</a>, but it may be older.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> Texts were reproduced by <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">woodblock printing</a>; the diffusion of Buddhist texts was a main impetus to large-scale production. The format of the book evolved with intermediate stages of scrolls folded <a href="/wiki/Concertina" title="Concertina">concertina</a>-style, scrolls bound at one edge ("butterfly books"), and so on. Although there is no exact date known, between 618 and 907 CE —the period of the Tang Dynasty— the first printing of books started in China.<a href="#cite_note-mcd-16">[16]</a><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> The oldest extant printed book is a work of the <a href="/wiki/Diamond_Sutra" title="Diamond Sutra">Diamond Sutra</a> and dates back to 868 CE, during the Tang Dynasty.<a href="#cite_note-mcd-16">[16]</a> The Diamond Sutra was printed by method of <a href="/wiki/Woodblock_printing" title="Woodblock printing">woodblock printing</a>, a strenuous method in which the text to be printed would be carved into a woodblock's surface, essentially to be used to stamp the words onto the writing surface medium.<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> Woodblock printing was a common process for the reproduction of already handwritten texts during the earliest stages of book printing. This process was incredibly time-consuming.<a href="#cite_note-:0-19">[19]</a> Because of the meticulous and time-consuming process that woodblock printing was, <a href="/wiki/Bi_Sheng" title="Bi Sheng">Bi Sheng</a>, a key contributor to the history of printing, invented the process of <a href="/wiki/Movable_type" title="Movable type">Movable type</a> printing (1041–1048 CE).<a href="#cite_note-:0-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-20">[20]</a> Bi Sheng developed a printing process in which written text could be copied with the use of formed character types, the earliest types being made of <a href="/wiki/Ceramic" title="Ceramic">ceramic</a> or clay material.<a href="#cite_note-:0-19">[19]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-20">[20]</a> The method of movable type printing would later be independently invented and improved by <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" title="Johannes Gutenberg">Johannes Gutenberg</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Japan">Japan</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Japan">edit</a>]</div> A lot of extremely detailed text was produced in early 17th century Japan. For instance, Hitomi Hitsudai spent sixty years taking field notes on 499 types of edible flowers and animals for his book Honchō shokkan (The Culinary Mirror of the Realm).<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> This detailed style of writing was common in the early years when the majority of literate people were of higher classes. Soon afterwards, literacy increased, as hundreds (some say thousands) of schools taught children the vocabulary of geography, history, and individual crafts and callings.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> The highly detailed style still persisted as it was consistent in many gazetteers, emerging as a social lexicon. In some instances, family almanacs and encyclopedias were put together regionally.<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> While the highly detailed writing form persisted, a simpler reading style also developed around the 1670s that was written for a popular readership. It used a simpler vernacular language, and was written almost directly for first-time book buyers. These original tales of fiction were popular among common samurai as well as common townspeople. Works went beyond fiction and also depicted certain crafts and manuals specialized for that topic.<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> These more popularized books were written in a newly emerging form of script[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>]. Authors had to deal with the idea of the "reading public" for the first time. These authors took into account the different social strata of their audience and had to learn "the common forms of reference that made the words and images of a text intelligible" to the layman.<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> Authors had reached a new market with their more simplistic writing. After passing this hurdle, they began writing about more than specified crafts and social lexicons. For the first time, writers had the chance to make once private knowledge public, and moved into more regional information guides.<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> Detail-oriented writing still persisted as writing became understood as something that needed to show "quantitative evidence in order to measure continuity against change".<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> The increasing literacy across Japan as well as the proliferation of authors made writing a semi-autonomous system.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify">clarification needed</a>] However, there were still instances of censorship in the late 17th century. Despite the vast depiction of landscape, governmental powers ensured areas that entailed sensitive subjects, such as military households, foreign affairs, Christianity, and other <a href="/wiki/Heterodoxy" title="Heterodoxy">heterodox</a> beliefs, and disturbing current events were kept out of public works. This self-censorship did have drawbacks, as social commentary stayed in the higher social caste where this information was more readily available.<a href="#cite_note-Berry,_Mary_Elizabeth_2006-22">[22]</a> Despite these censors, public readings increased across Japan and created new markets that could be shared between the higher elites as well as middlebrow people, albeit with differing subject matter. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pre-columbian_codices_of_the_Americas">Pre-columbian codices of the Americas</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Pre-columbian codices of the Americas">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dresden_codex,_page_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg/170px-Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="369" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg/255px-Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg/340px-Dresden_codex%2C_page_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2254" data-file-height="4886" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dresden_Codex" title="Dresden Codex">Dresden Codex</a> (page 49)</figcaption></figure> In Mesoamerica, information was recorded on long strips of paper, agave fibers, or animal hides, which were then folded and protected by wooden covers. These were thought to have existed since the time of the Classical Period between the 3rd and 8th centuries, CE. Many of these codices were thought to contain astrological information, religious calendars, knowledge about the gods, genealogies of the rulers, cartographic information, and tribute collection. Many of these codices were stored in temples but were ultimately destroyed by the Spanish explorers.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Currently, the only completely deciphered pre-Columbian writing system is the <a href="/wiki/Maya_script" title="Maya script">Maya script</a>. The Maya, along with <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican_writing_systems" title="Mesoamerican writing systems">several</a> other cultures in <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerica" title="Mesoamerica">Mesoamerica</a>, constructed concertina-style books written on <a href="/wiki/Amate" title="Amate">Amate</a> paper. Nearly all Mayan texts were <a href="/wiki/Diego_de_Landa" title="Diego de Landa">destroyed</a> by the Spanish during colonization on cultural and religious grounds. One of the few surviving examples is the <a href="/wiki/Dresden_Codex" title="Dresden Codex">Dresden Codex</a>.<a href="#cite_note-WDL-26">[26]</a> Although only the Maya have been shown to have a writing system capable of conveying any concept that can be conveyed via speech (at about the same level as the modern <a href="/wiki/Japanese_writing_system" title="Japanese writing system">Japanese writing system</a>), other <a href="/wiki/Mesoamerican" class="mw-redirect" title="Mesoamerican">Mesoamerican</a> cultures had more rudimentary <a href="/wiki/Ideogram" title="Ideogram">ideographical writing systems</a> which were contained in similar concertina-style books, one such example being the <a href="/wiki/Aztec_codices" class="mw-redirect" title="Aztec codices">Aztec codices</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Florentine_Codex">Florentine Codex</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Florentine Codex">edit</a>]</div> There are more than 2,000 illustrations drawn by native artists that represent this era. Bernardino de Sahagun tells the story of the Aztec people's lives and their natural history. The Florentine Codex speaks about the culture religious cosmology and ritual practices, society, economics, and natural history of the Aztec people. The manuscript is arranged in both Nahuatl and in Spanish. The English translation of the complete Nahuatl text of all twelve volumes of the Florentine Codex took ten years. Arthur J.O. Anderson and Charles Dibble had a decade of long work but made it an important contribution to Mesoamerican ethnohistory. Years later, in 1979, the Mexican government published a full-color volume of the Florentine Codex. Now, since 2012, it is available digitally and fully accessible to those interested in Mexican and Aztec History. The Florentine Codex is a 16th-century ethnographic research study brought about by the Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagun. The codex itself was actually named La Historia Universal de las Cosas de Nueva España.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> Bernardino de Sahagun worked on this project from 1545 up until his death in 1590. The Florentine Codex consists of twelve books. It is 2500 pages long but divided into twelve books by categories such as; The Gods, Ceremonies, Omens, and other cultural aspects of Aztec people. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Wax_tablets">Wax tablets</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Wax tablets">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg/220px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="236" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg/330px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg/440px-Herkulaneischer_Meister_002b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="468" data-file-height="503" /></a><figcaption>Woman holding wax tablets in the form of the <a href="/wiki/Codex" title="Codex">codex</a>. Wall painting from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, before 79 CE.</figcaption></figure> Romans used wax-coated wooden tablets or pugillares upon which they could write and erase by using a <a href="/wiki/Stylus" title="Stylus">stylus</a>. One end of the stylus was pointed, and the other was spherical. Usually, these tablets were used for everyday purposes (accounting, notes) and for teaching writing to children, according to the methods discussed by <a href="/wiki/Quintilian" title="Quintilian">Quintilian</a> in his Institutio Oratoria X Chapter 3. Several of these tablets could be assembled in a form similar to a codex. Also, the etymology of the word codex (block of wood) suggests that it may have developed from wooden wax tablets.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Parchment">Parchment</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Parchment">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Parchment" title="Parchment">Parchment</a></div> Parchment progressively replaced papyrus. Legend attributes its invention to <a href="/wiki/Eumenes_II" title="Eumenes II">Eumenes II</a>, the king of <a href="/wiki/Pergamon" title="Pergamon">Pergamon</a>, from which comes the name "pergamineum," which became "parchment." Its production began around the 3rd century BCE. Made using the skins of animals (sheep, cattle, donkey, antelope, etc.), parchment proved to be easier to conserve over time; it was more solid and allowed one to erase text. It was a very expensive medium because of the rarity of the material and the time required to produce a document. <a href="/wiki/Vellum" title="Vellum">Vellum</a>, in particular, is a fine quality parchment, made from calf hide. <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Book_Riddle_26" title="Exeter Book Riddle 26">Exeter Book Riddle 26</a> describes the process of making parchment through the eyes of an animal. The riddle reads: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Some enemy deprived me of my life And took away my worldly strength, then wet me, dipped me in water, took me out again, set me in sunshine, where I quickly lost the hairs I had. Later the knife’s hard edge cut me with all impurities ground off. Then fingers folded me; the bird’s fine raiment traced often over me with useful drops across my brown domain, swallowed the tree-dye mixed up with water, stepped on me again leaving dark tracks. The hero clothed me then with boards to guard me, stretched hide over me, Decked me with gold…<div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Greece_and_Rome">Greece and Rome</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Greece and Rome">edit</a>]</div> The scroll of papyrus is called "volumen" in Latin, a word which signifies "circular movement," "roll," "spiral," "whirlpool," "revolution" (similar, perhaps, to the modern English interpretation of "swirl") and finally "a roll of writing paper, a rolled manuscript, or a book." In the 7th century <a href="/wiki/Isidore_of_Seville" title="Isidore of Seville">Isidore of Seville</a> explains the relation between codex, book, and scroll in his Etymologiae (VI.13) as this: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">A codex is composed of many books (librorum); a book is of one scroll (voluminis). It is called codex by way of metaphor from the trunks (caudex) of trees or vines, as if it were a wooden stock, because it contains in itself a multitude of books, as it were of branches.</blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Description">Description</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Description">edit</a>]</div> The scroll is rolled around two vertical wooden axes. This design allows only sequential usage; one is obliged to read the text in the order in which it is written, and it is impossible to place a marker in order to directly access a precise point in the text. It is comparable to modern video cassettes. Moreover, the reader must use both hands to hold on to the vertical wooden rolls and therefore cannot read and write at the same time. The only volumen in common usage today is the Jewish <a href="/wiki/Torah" title="Torah">Torah</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book_culture">Book culture</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Book culture">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a>. Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/History_of_books" title="Special:EditPage/History of books">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>. (November 2023) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York,_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories;_a_Book_for_Boys.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A copyright imprint from McLoughlin Bros" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png/220px-Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="212" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png/330px-Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png/440px-Copyright_BY_McLoughlin_Bros._1993_New_York%2C_Hunting_and_Trapping_Stories%3B_a_Book_for_Boys.png 2x" data-file-width="444" data-file-height="428" /></a><figcaption>A twentieth-century copyright imprint from McLoughlin Bros that features three rams and the copyright year, 1903</figcaption></figure> The authors of <a href="/wiki/Ancient_history" title="Ancient history">antiquity</a> had no rights concerning their published works; there were neither authors' nor publishing rights. Anyone could have a text recopied, and even alter its contents. Scribes earned money and authors earned mostly glory unless a patron provided cash; a book made its author famous. This followed the traditional concept of the culture: an author stuck to several models, which he imitated and attempted to improve. The status of the author was not regarded as absolutely personal.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] From a political and religious point of view, books were censored very early: the works of <a href="/wiki/Protagoras" title="Protagoras">Protagoras</a> were burned because he was a proponent of agnosticism and argued that one could not know whether or not the gods existed. Generally, cultural conflicts led to important periods of book destruction: in 303, the emperor <a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a> ordered the burning of Christian texts. Some Christians later burned libraries and especially heretical or non-canonical Christian texts. These practices are found throughout human history but have ended in many nations today. A few nations today still greatly censor and even burn books.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] But there also exists a less visible but nonetheless effective form of censorship when books are reserved for the <a href="/wiki/Elite" title="Elite">elite</a>; the book was not originally a medium for expressive liberty. It may serve to confirm the values of a political system, as during the reign of the emperor <a href="/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus">Augustus</a>, who skillfully surrounded himself with great authors. This is a good ancient example of the control of the media by political power. However, private and public censorship has continued into the modern era, albeit in various forms.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proliferation_and_conservation_of_books_in_Greece">Proliferation and conservation of books in Greece</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Proliferation and conservation of books in Greece">edit</a>]</div> Little information concerning books in Ancient <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> survives. Several vases (6th and 5th centuries BCE) bear images of volumina. There was undoubtedly no extensive trade in books, but there existed several sites devoted to the sale of books. The spread of books, and attention to their cataloging and conservation, as well as literary criticism developed during the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic">Hellenistic</a> period with the creation of large libraries in response to the desire for knowledge exemplified by <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>. These libraries were undoubtedly also built as demonstrations of political prestige: <ul><li>The Library at <a href="/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch">Antioch</a>, a public library of which <a href="/wiki/Euphorion_of_Chalcis" title="Euphorion of Chalcis">Euphorion of Chalcis</a> was the director near the end of the 3rd century.</li> <li>The Library at <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>, the Ptolemaion, which gained importance following the destruction of the <a href="/wiki/Library_at_Alexandria" class="mw-redirect" title="Library at Alexandria">Library at Alexandria</a>; the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Pantainos" title="Library of Pantainos">Library of Pantainos</a>, around 100 CE; the library of <a href="/wiki/Hadrian" title="Hadrian">Hadrian</a>, in 132 CE.</li> <li>The Library at <a href="/wiki/Pergamon" title="Pergamon">Pergamon</a>, founded by <a href="/wiki/Attalus_I" title="Attalus I">Attalus I</a>; it contained 200,000 volumes which were moved to the Serapeion by <a href="/wiki/Mark_Antony" title="Mark Antony">Mark Antony</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra" title="Cleopatra">Cleopatra</a>, after the destruction of the Museion. The Serapion was partially destroyed in 391, and the last books disappeared in 641 CE following the <a href="/wiki/Arab" class="mw-redirect" title="Arab">Arab</a> conquest.</li> <li>The Library at <a href="/wiki/Rhodes" title="Rhodes">Rhodes</a>, a library that rivaled the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria">Library of Alexandria</a>, a library created by <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy I">Ptolemy Soter</a> and set up by <a href="/wiki/Demetrius_Phalereus" class="mw-redirect" title="Demetrius Phalereus">Demetrius Phalereus</a> (Demetrius of Phaleron). It contained 500,900 volumes (in the Museion section) and 40,000 at the Serapis temple (Serapeion). All books in the luggage of visitors to Egypt were inspected and could be held for copying. The Museion was partially destroyed in 47 BCE.</li></ul> The libraries had copyist workshops and the general organization of books allowed for the following: <ul><li>A catalog of books</li> <li>Conservation of an example of each text</li> <li>Literary criticisms in order to establish reference texts for the copy (example : <a href="/wiki/The_Iliad" class="mw-redirect" title="The Iliad">The Iliad</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Odyssey" class="mw-redirect" title="The Odyssey">The Odyssey</a>)</li> <li>The copy itself, which allowed books to be disseminated</li> <li>Translation (the <a href="/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint">Septuagint</a> Bible, for example)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book_production_in_Rome">Book production in Rome</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Book production in Rome">edit</a>]</div> Book production developed in <a href="/wiki/Rome" title="Rome">Rome</a> in the 1st century BC with Latin literature that had been influenced by the Greek. Conservative estimates place the number of potential readers in Imperial Rome at around 100,000 people.<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a> This diffusion primarily concerned circles of literary individuals. <a href="/wiki/Titus_Pomponius_Atticus" title="Titus Pomponius Atticus">Atticus</a> was the editor of his friend <a href="/wiki/Cicero" title="Cicero">Cicero</a>. However, the book business progressively extended itself through the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>; for example, there were bookstores in <a href="/wiki/Lyon" title="Lyon">Lyon</a>. The spread of the book was aided by the spread of <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> throughout the <a href="/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire">Western Roman Empire</a>. <a href="/wiki/Library" title="Library">Libraries</a> were private or created at the behest of an individual. <a href="/wiki/Julius_Caesar" title="Julius Caesar">Julius Caesar</a>, for example, wanted to establish one in Rome, proving that libraries were signs of political prestige. In the year 377, there were 28 libraries in Rome, and it is known that there were many smaller libraries in other cities. Despite the great distribution of books, scientists do not have a complete picture as to the literary scene in antiquity as thousands of books have been lost through time.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Paper">Paper</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Paper">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_paper" title="History of paper">History of paper</a></div> Papermaking has traditionally been traced to China about 105 CE, when <a href="/wiki/Cai_Lun" title="Cai Lun">Cai Lun</a>, an official attached to the Imperial court during the <a href="/wiki/Han_dynasty" title="Han dynasty">Han dynasty</a> (202 BCE – 220 CE), created a sheet of paper using <a href="/wiki/Mulberry" class="mw-redirect" title="Mulberry">mulberry</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Bast_fibre" title="Bast fibre">bast fibres</a> along with <a href="/wiki/Fishnets" class="mw-redirect" title="Fishnets">fishnets</a>, old rags, and <a href="/wiki/Hemp" title="Hemp">hemp</a> waste.<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> While paper used for wrapping and padding was used in China since the 2nd century BC,<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> paper used as a writing medium only became widespread by the 3rd century.<a href="#cite_note-Needham1-32">[32]</a> By the 6th century in China, sheets of paper were beginning to be used for <a href="/wiki/Toilet_paper" title="Toilet paper">toilet paper</a> as well.<a href="#cite_note-Needham1-32">[32]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Tang_dynasty" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a> (618–907 CE) paper was folded and sewn into square <a href="/wiki/Tea_bag" title="Tea bag">bags</a> to preserve the flavor of tea.<a href="#cite_note-Needham5-3">[3]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Song_dynasty" title="Song dynasty">Song dynasty</a> (960–1279) that followed was the first government to issue <a href="/wiki/Banknote" title="Banknote">paper currency</a>. Paper as a substrate was introduced from China and practiced in Central Asia by the 8th century CE.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> Rather than the <a href="/wiki/Bast_fibre" title="Bast fibre">bast fibers</a> used for Chinese papermaking, artisans used rag fibers which could be locally sourced. Under Arab rule, these artisans enhanced their techniques for beating rag fibers and preparing the surface of the paper to be smooth and porous by utilizing <a href="/wiki/Starch" title="Starch">starch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> By the latter half of the 10th century CE paper had replaced papyrus as the dominant substrate for books in the regions under Islamic rule.<a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a> An important development was the mechanization of paper manufacture by <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">medieval</a> papermakers. The introduction of water-powered <a href="/wiki/Paper_mill" title="Paper mill">paper mills</a>, the first certain evidence of which dates to the 11th century in Córdoba, Spain,<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> allowed for a massive expansion of production and replaced the laborious handcraft characteristic of both Chinese<a href="#cite_note-Thompson,_Susan_1978_pp._167-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a> and Muslim<a href="#cite_note-Thompson,_Susan_1978_pp._167-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> papermaking. Papermaking centers began to multiply in the late 13th century in Italy, reducing the price of paper to one-sixth of parchment and then falling further.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Middle Ages">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Manuscript_culture" title="Manuscript culture">Manuscript culture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">Illuminated manuscript</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg/220px-Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg/330px-Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg/440px-Codex_Manesse_Ulrich_von_Singenberg.jpg 2x" data-file-width="971" data-file-height="1452" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Codex_Manesse" title="Codex Manesse">Codex Manesse</a>, a German book from the Middle Ages</figcaption></figure> By the end of antiquity, between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the scroll was replaced by the codex. The book was no longer a continuous roll, but a collection of sheets attached at the back. It became possible to access a precise point in the text quickly. The codex is equally easy to rest on a table, which permits the reader to take notes while they are reading. The codex form improved with the separation of words, capital letters, and punctuation, which permitted <a href="/wiki/Silent_reading" title="Silent reading">silent reading</a>. Tables of contents and indices facilitated direct access to information. This is still the standard book form, over 1500 years after its appearance. However, it is more likely that its development is attributable to the early Christians who began using it.<a href="#cite_note-39">[39]</a> Paper would progressively replace parchment. Cheaper to produce, it allowed a greater diffusion of books. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books_in_monasteries">Books in monasteries</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Books in monasteries">edit</a>]</div> A number of Christian books were destroyed at the order of <a href="/wiki/Diocletian" title="Diocletian">Diocletian</a> in 304. During the turbulent periods of the invasions, it was the monasteries that conserved religious texts and certain works of <a href="/wiki/Classical_antiquity" title="Classical antiquity">classical antiquity</a> for the West. There were also important copying centers in <a href="/wiki/Byzantium" title="Byzantium">Byzantium</a>. The role of monasteries in the conservation of books is somewhat ambiguous: <ul><li>The purpose of book conservation was not exclusively to preserve ancient culture; it was especially relevant to understanding religious texts with the aid of ancient knowledge. Some works were never recopied, having been judged too dangerous for the monks. Moreover, in need of blank media, the monks sometimes scraped off manuscripts, thereby destroying ancient works. The transmission of knowledge was centered primarily on sacred texts.</li> <li>Reading was an important activity in the lives of monks, which can be divided into prayer, intellectual work, and manual labor (in the <a href="/wiki/Benedictine" class="mw-redirect" title="Benedictine">Benedictine</a> order, for example). It was therefore necessary to make copies of certain works. Accordingly, many monasteries had a <a href="/wiki/Scriptorium" title="Scriptorium">scriptorium</a>, where monks copied and decorated manuscripts that had been preserved.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Copying_and_conserving_books">Copying and conserving books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Copying and conserving books">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg/260px-Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg/390px-Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg/520px-Tavernier_Jean_Mielot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1259" /></a><figcaption>An author portrait of <a href="/wiki/Jean_Mi%C3%A9lot" title="Jean Miélot">Jean Miélot</a> writing his compilation of the Miracles of Our Lady, one of his many popular works.</figcaption></figure> Despite this ambiguity, monasteries in the West and the Eastern Empire permitted the conservation of a certain number of secular texts, and several libraries were created: for example, <a href="/wiki/Cassiodorus" title="Cassiodorus">Cassiodorus</a> ('Vivarum' in Calabria, around 550), and <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I_(emperor)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I (emperor)">Constantine I</a> in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a>. Even so, survival of books often depended on political battles and ideologies, which sometimes entailed massive destruction of books or difficulties in production (for example, the distribution of books during the <a href="/wiki/Iconoclasm" title="Iconoclasm">Iconoclasm</a> between 730 and 842). A long list of very old and surviving libraries that now form part of the <a href="/wiki/Vatican_Archives" class="mw-redirect" title="Vatican Archives">Vatican Archives</a> can be found in the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia">Catholic Encyclopedia</a>. To help preserve books and protect them from thieves, librarians would create <a href="/wiki/Chained_library" title="Chained library">chained libraries</a>, with books attached to cabinets or desks with metal chains. This eliminated the unauthorized removal of books. One of the earliest chained libraries was in England during the 1500s. Popular culture also has examples of chained libraries, such as in <a href="/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher%27s_Stone" title="Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone">Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone</a> by <a href="/wiki/J.K_Rowling" class="mw-redirect" title="J.K Rowling">J.K Rowling</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_scriptorium">The scriptorium</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: The scriptorium">edit</a>]</div> The scriptorium was the workroom of monk copyists; here, books were copied, decorated, rebound, and conserved. The armarius directed the work and played the role of the librarian. The role of the copyist was multifaceted: for example, thanks to their work, texts circulated from one monastery to another. Copies also allowed monks to learn texts and to perfect their religious education. The relationship with the book thus defined itself according to an intellectual relationship with God. But if these copies were sometimes made for the monks themselves, there were also copies made on-demand. The task of copying itself had several phases: the preparation of the manuscript in the form of notebooks once the work was complete, the presentation of pages, the copying itself, revision, correction of errors, decoration, and <a href="/wiki/Bookbinding" title="Bookbinding">binding</a>. The book, therefore, required a variety of competencies, which often made a manuscript a collective effort. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transformation_from_the_literary_edition_in_the_12th_century">Transformation from the literary edition in the 12th century</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Transformation from the literary edition in the 12th century">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_(The_Madonna_of_the_Book)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="323" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Sandro_Botticelli_-_The_Virgin_and_Child_%28The_Madonna_of_the_Book%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6811" data-file-height="10001" /></a><figcaption>The scene in <a href="/wiki/Sandro_Botticelli" title="Sandro Botticelli">Botticelli</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Madonna_of_the_Book" title="Madonna of the Book">Madonna of the Book</a> (1480) reflects the presence of books in the houses of richer people in his time.</figcaption></figure> The revival of cities in Europe would change the conditions of book production and extend its influence, and the monastic period of the book would come to an end. This revival accompanied the intellectual renaissance of the period. The <a href="/wiki/Manuscript_culture" title="Manuscript culture">Manuscript culture</a> outside of the monastery developed in these university-cities in Europe at this time. It is around the first universities that new structures of production developed: reference manuscripts were used by students and professors for teaching theology and liberal arts. The development of commerce and of the bourgeoisie brought with it a demand for specialized and general texts (law, history, novels, etc.). It is in this period that writing in the common vernacular developed (courtly poetry, novels, etc.). Commercial scriptoria became common, and the profession of bookseller came into being, sometimes dealing internationally. There is also the creation of royal libraries as in the case of <a href="/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France" title="Louis IX of France">Saint Louis</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_V_of_France" title="Charles V of France">Charles V</a>. Books were also collected in private libraries, which became more common in the 14th and 15th centuries. The use of paper diffused through Europe in the 14th century. This material, less expensive than parchment, came from China via the <a href="/wiki/Arabs" title="Arabs">Arabs</a> in Spain in the 11th and 12th centuries. It was used in particular for ordinary copies, while parchment was used for luxury editions. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Printing_press">Printing press</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Printing press">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">Printing press</a> and <a href="/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_press" title="Global spread of the printing press">Global spread of the printing press</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Editio_princeps" title="Editio princeps">Editio princeps</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg/220px-Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg/330px-Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg/440px-Korean_book-Jikji-Selected_Teachings_of_Buddhist_Sages_and_Seon_Masters-1377.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="400" /></a><figcaption>Jikji, Selected Teachings of Buddhist Sages and Seon Masters, the earliest known book printed with movable metal type, 1377. <a href="/wiki/Biblioth%C3%A8que_Nationale_de_France" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliothèque Nationale de France">Bibliothèque Nationale de France</a>, Paris.</figcaption></figure> The invention of the moveable type on the <a href="/wiki/Printing_press" title="Printing press">printing press</a> by <a href="/wiki/Johann_Fust" title="Johann Fust">Johann Fust</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Schoffer" class="mw-redirect" title="Peter Schoffer">Peter Schoffer</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg" title="Johannes Gutenberg">Johannes Gutenberg</a> around 1440 marks the entry of the book into the industrial age. The Western book was no longer a single object, written or reproduced by request. The publication of a book became an enterprise, requiring capital for its realization and a market for its distribution. The cost of each individual book (in a large edition) was lowered enormously, which in turn increased the distribution of books. The book in codex form and printed on paper, as we know it today, dates from the 15th century. Books printed before January 1, 1501, are called <a href="/wiki/Incunable" title="Incunable">incunables</a>. The spreading of book printing all over Europe occurred relatively quickly, but most books were still printed in Latin. The spreading of the concept of printing books in the <a href="/wiki/Vernacular" title="Vernacular">vernacular</a> was a somewhat slower process. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Western_Asia_and_North_Africa">Western Asia and North Africa</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Western Asia and North Africa">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_period">Early period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Early period">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Unknown,_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain,_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/265px-Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="265" height="177" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/398px-Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/530px-Unknown%2C_North_Africa_or_Southern_Spain%2C_9th_or_10th_Century_-_Blue_Qur%27an_Page_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4993" data-file-height="3329" /></a><figcaption>Page from the Blue Quran manuscript, ca. 9th or 10th century CE</figcaption></figure> Since the 7th century CE, parchment was used in the codex form for transcribing the <a href="/wiki/Quran" title="Quran">Quran</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> They ranged from being of a larger size used for public recitations to being pocket sized.<a href="#cite_note-:6-40">[40]</a> Books created in this time period placed greater importance on text over image.<a href="#cite_note-:6-40">[40]</a> In many cases, the parchment was dyed (such as the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Quran" title="Blue Quran">Blue Quran</a>), which was initially executed in Christian <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_illuminated_manuscripts" title="Byzantine illuminated manuscripts">Byzantine manuscripts</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:6-40">[40]</a> Earlier Quran manuscripts were oriented vertically, with the height of the book longer than its width.<a href="#cite_note-:18-41">[41]</a> However, later the standard horizontal orientation was established.<a href="#cite_note-:18-41">[41]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_period">Medieval period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Medieval period">edit</a>]</div> The art of the book as a discipline came to be established in the Medieval Islamic period during the 11th-century CE.<a href="#cite_note-:7-42">[42]</a> This is attributed to the rising availability of paper which replaced parchment and was easier to handle and distribute, and that rounded scripts took the place of previously angular scripts.<a href="#cite_note-:7-42">[42]</a> In this period, an array of book types were produced in addition to the Quran, including scientific notes, poetry and literary narratives.<a href="#cite_note-:7-42">[42]</a> The conversion of members of the Mongol elite classes to Islam in the 13th century CE to form the <a href="/wiki/Ilkhanate" title="Ilkhanate">Ilkhanate</a> led to a surge in patronage for book production and distribution from <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baghdad" title="Baghdad">Baghdad</a>.<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a> Large scale operations of producing Qurans were made possible by the availability of Baghdadi paper.<a href="#cite_note-:8-44">[44]</a> The increase in the volume of books produced was used as a tool to spread publicity about the workings of the papermaking mills established by the Ilkhans. Along with this, the other artisans working in conjunction with the book arts (<a href="/wiki/Calligraphy" title="Calligraphy">calligraphers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bookbinding" title="Bookbinding">bookbinders</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illuminated_manuscript" title="Illuminated manuscript">illuminators</a>, etc.) all benefited from the increased output.<a href="#cite_note-:8-44">[44]</a> Images began to appear on illuminated manuscripts along with text with illustration becoming a focal point of the book, not just calligraphy.<a href="#cite_note-:8-44">[44]</a> The role of the books produced by the Ilkhans were intended to promote either religion or heritage and ranged from holy books to historical ones.<a href="#cite_note-:8-44">[44]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg/220px-Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="325" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg/330px-Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg/440px-Baysonghori_Shahnameh_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="693" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>Folio from a manuscript of the <a href="/wiki/Shahnameh" title="Shahnameh">Shanamah</a> (Book of Kings)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_period">Later period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Later period">edit</a>]</div> Manuscript production in the 16th and 17th centuries CE were directed towards royal workshops with the economic power to produce them.<a href="#cite_note-:9-45">[45]</a> Book distribution tied to their use as status symbols in one's collection, or as economic investments and donations.<a href="#cite_note-:9-45">[45]</a> The process of producing a manuscript began with the workshop director designing the overall layout, followed by the process of making the paper (which may be gold-speckled or <a href="/wiki/Paper_marbling" title="Paper marbling">marbled</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Scribe" title="Scribe">scribe</a> writing the text and finally multiple artisans illustrating the pages with <a href="/wiki/Miniature_(illuminated_manuscript)" title="Miniature (illuminated manuscript)">miniature paintings</a>, banners and decorated <a href="/wiki/Book_frontispiece" title="Book frontispiece">frontispieces</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-45">[45]</a> After the pages were <a href="/wiki/Burnishing_(metal)" title="Burnishing (metal)">burnished</a>, bookbinders sewed the front cover, spine and back cover with the <a href="/wiki/Folio" title="Folio">folios</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:9-45">[45]</a> Baghdad emerged as the epicenter for book production in the <a href="/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire">Ottoman Empire</a>.<a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a> Books produced in Ottoman workshops included biographies, travelogues and genealogies.<a href="#cite_note-:10-47">[47]</a> In the late 16th century CE patronage to the arts declined, including book production, due to an economic crisis.<a href="#cite_note-:10-47">[47]</a> The arts revived under the rule of <a href="/wiki/Ahmed_III" title="Ahmed III">Ahmet III</a> who established the <a href="/wiki/Topkap%C4%B1_Palace" title="Topkapı Palace">Topkapi Palace</a> library in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> to commission new manuscripts.<a href="#cite_note-:10-47">[47]</a> The imagery used in these books began to take influence from contemporary European <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engravings</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:10-47">[47]</a> Until the late 1500s, availability of printed books increased but not acceptance of the printing press, since the scribes and calligraphers felt they would be out of work should it be introduced.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> The Persian <a href="/wiki/Safavid_dynasty" title="Safavid dynasty">Safavids</a> held great importance to the book arts and had a thriving book culture.<a href="#cite_note-:17-49">[49]</a> In this era, the kitab-khana ("book house") was a term serving three definitions – first, it was a public library for the storing and preservation of the books; secondly, it also referred to an individual's own private collection of books; and thirdly to a workshop where books were made with calligraphers, bookbinders and papermakers worked together.<a href="#cite_note-:17-49">[49]</a> The Safavid style of manuscript illustrations evolved into its own style building from the arts of the <a href="/wiki/Timurid_Empire" title="Timurid Empire">Timurid Period</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:11-50">[50]</a> The most well-known manuscript created by the Safavids is the <a href="/wiki/Shahnameh" title="Shahnameh">Shahnama</a>, based on the poem by <a href="/wiki/Ferdowsi" title="Ferdowsi">Ferdowsi</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:11-50">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Introduction_to_printing">Introduction to printing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Introduction to printing">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Movable_type" title="Movable type">Movable type</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_script" title="Arabic script">Arabic script</a> was initially created by European printing presses. In the 1530s, the first Quran had been printed in <a href="/wiki/Venice" title="Venice">Venice</a> by <a href="/wiki/Paganino_Paganini" title="Paganino Paganini">Paganino Paganini</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:14-51">[51]</a> The embrace of the printing press by the general public in the Arab and Persian worlds occurred in the 18th century CE, despite having been introduced in Europe three centuries earlier.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> The first Arabic printing press was established in <a href="/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople">Constantinople</a> in 1720 under the reign of Sultan Ahmed III.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt,_and_next_to_him,_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg/220px-His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="175" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg/330px-His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg/440px-His_Highness_Prince_Muhammad_Ali_visits_the_printing_press_of_Egypt%2C_and_next_to_him%2C_Talaat_Pasha_Harb.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1180" data-file-height="938" /></a><figcaption>Photograph of a printing press in Egypt, c. 1922</figcaption></figure> In 1815, <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali_of_Egypt" title="Muhammad Ali of Egypt">Muhammad Ali Pasha</a> sent artisans to <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a> to learn the principles of printing in order to set up a press in Egypt.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> The Bulaq Press was established in 1822 and was headed by Nikula al-Masabiki from Syria, who designed the Arabic typesets.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> The first published book by the printing press was an Italian–Arabic dictionary.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> <a href="/wiki/Lithography" title="Lithography">Lithographic printmaking</a> was introduced as a way of mechanical reproduction of text and image by the 19th century CE, shortly after its invention in the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Bavaria" title="Kingdom of Bavaria">Kingdom of Bavaria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:13-52">[52]</a> The first Persian book to be printed by lithography was a copy of the Quran, using a printing press imported from Russia to the city of <a href="/wiki/Tabriz" title="Tabriz">Tabriz</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:13-52">[52]</a> Despite the use of movable typography diminishing between 1852 and 1872, the process of printing from stone lithography flourished in Islamic book production.<a href="#cite_note-:13-52">[52]</a> The advantage of lithography included the medium being well suited to adapt the well established artistic traditions found in traditional Islamic manuscripts.<a href="#cite_note-:13-52">[52]</a> In Persia in the mid-1800s, several "mixed-media" codices were created, employing a hybrid range of both handwritten scribed portions and printed matter.<a href="#cite_note-:13-52">[52]</a> By the late 1800s movable type increased in popularity again.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> In Egypt, the majority of the 10,205 books printed from 1822 to 1900 were through letterpress printing.<a href="#cite_note-:5-48">[48]</a> As the arts pertaining to manuscript production such as miniature painting and bookbinding decreased in popularity in the 20th century CE, calligraphy and the art of writing still remain popular.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="South_Asia">South Asia</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: South Asia">edit</a>]</div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anonymous_-_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript,_Kalpa-sutra,_Text_(recto),_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript,_Kalpa-sutra,_Birth_of_Mahavira,_folio_40_(verso)_-_1976.27_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tiff" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anonymous_-_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Text_%28recto%29%2C_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Birth_of_Mahavira%2C_folio_40_%28verso%29_-_1976.27_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tiff/lossy-page1-355px-thumbnail.tiff.jpg" decoding="async" width="355" height="126" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anonymous_-_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Text_%28recto%29%2C_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Birth_of_Mahavira%2C_folio_40_%28verso%29_-_1976.27_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tiff/lossy-page1-533px-thumbnail.tiff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Anonymous_-_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Text_%28recto%29%2C_Leaf_from_a_Jain_Manuscript%2C_Kalpa-sutra%2C_Birth_of_Mahavira%2C_folio_40_%28verso%29_-_1976.27_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.tiff/lossy-page1-710px-thumbnail.tiff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8000" data-file-height="2836" /></a><figcaption>Page from a Jain manuscript depicting the birth of <a href="/wiki/Mahavira" title="Mahavira">Mahavira</a>, c. 1400</figcaption></figure> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh,_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg/169px-Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg" decoding="async" width="169" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg/254px-Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg/338px-Nanha._The_Emperor_Shah_Jahan_with_his_Son_Dara_Shikoh%2C_Folio_from_the_Shah_Jahan_Album_ca._1620_Metmuseum.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2485" data-file-height="3722" /></a><figcaption>Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, c. 1620, depicting the Mughal Emperor <a href="/wiki/Shah_Jahan" title="Shah Jahan">Shah Jahan</a></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_manuscripts">Early manuscripts</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Early manuscripts">edit</a>]</div> In ancient times, <a href="/wiki/Stone_slab" title="Stone slab">stone slabs</a> had been used for writing.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> The oldest surviving books come from the 10th century CE, the earliest belonging to the Buddhist manuscript tradition.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> Prior to the adoption of paper, these were written on palm leaves, a naturally abundant resource in the southern part of the subcontinent.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> The pages were usually three feet wide and two inches tall.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> The process of preparing the palm leaves consisted of drying, polishing, and treating with <a href="/wiki/Starch" title="Starch">starch</a> to form a surface suitable for writing.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> The pages were bound together by a single piece of string on the shorter edge, and held with the longer edge of the manuscript running alongside the user's chest.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> Paper was introduced to the Indian Subcontinent from Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula in the 11th century CE by merchants trading with <a href="/wiki/Gujarat" title="Gujarat">Gujarat</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> The first <a href="/wiki/Papermaking" title="Papermaking">papermaking</a> mills were established in the 15th century CE by artisans arriving from <a href="/wiki/Samarkand" title="Samarkand">Samarkand</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:4-13">[13]</a> However, palm leaves continued to be used as a substrate for manuscripts in parts of eastern and southern India and Sri Lanka.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> Paper was commonly used in the Jain manuscript tradition from the 15th century CE onwards.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> The elongated proportions of the <a href="/wiki/Palm-leaf_manuscript" title="Palm-leaf manuscript">palm leaf manuscripts</a> were dropped for thinner forms made possible by the use of paper, however, the pages still used a horizontal orientation.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> Images took up around one-third of the page, the rest being filled with text.<a href="#cite_note-:19-54">[54]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Mughal_Era">Mughal Era</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Mughal Era">edit</a>]</div> The first Mughal Emperor <a href="/wiki/Babur" title="Babur">Babur</a> was not a large patron of the arts, however, he chronicled his endeavors in a biographic manuscript called the <a href="/wiki/Baburnama" title="Baburnama">Baburnama</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:15-55">[55]</a> Following his exile into the <a href="/wiki/Safavid_dynasty" title="Safavid dynasty">Safavid Empire</a>, in 1540 Babur's successor <a href="/wiki/Humayun" title="Humayun">Humayun</a> brought back artisans of illustrated Persian manuscripts to the Mughal court.<a href="#cite_note-:15-55">[55]</a> Despite being illiterate himself, the book arts flourished under the patronage of Mughal Emperor <a href="/wiki/Akbar" title="Akbar">Akbar</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:16-56">[56]</a> He established a painting workshop adjacent to the royal library and <a href="/wiki/Atelier" title="Atelier">atelier</a> in <a href="/wiki/Fatehpur_Sikri" title="Fatehpur Sikri">Fatehpur Sikri</a> in the late 15th century CE, allowing the production of the book and illustrated manuscript to occur more efficiently.<a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a> Large scale poster-sized manuscript paintings were used as recitation aids to famous stories and narratives, such as the <a href="/wiki/Hamzanama" title="Hamzanama">Hamzanama</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:16-56">[56]</a> Akbar's grandson <a href="/wiki/Shah_Jahan" title="Shah Jahan">Shah Jahan</a> established a manuscript decoration tradition that included a strong emphasis on text than his predecessors, as well as margins filled with imagery of flowers and vegetation.<a href="#cite_note-:15-55">[55]</a> Manuscript production had declined from its peak by the time of Shah Jahan's reign and book illustrators and artisans went on to be employed by the regional Rajasthani courts of <a href="/wiki/Bikaner" title="Bikaner">Bikaner</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bundi" title="Bundi">Bundi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kota,_Rajasthan" title="Kota, Rajasthan">Kota</a>.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> During the 17th century CE, the influence of the illustrated book declined.<a href="#cite_note-:14-51">[51]</a> Single sheet artworks became more popular since they were more cost-effective to produce and purchase, and were later assembled into albums with decorative elements added after.<a href="#cite_note-:14-51">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Modern_Era">Modern Era</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Modern Era">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Late_Modern_Period">The Late Modern Period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: The Late Modern Period">edit</a>]</div> The Late Modern Period saw a lot of development in the types of books being circulated. Chapbooks – short works on cheap paper – were targeted towards lower-class readers and featured a diverse range of subjects. Everything from myth and fairy tales to practical and medical advice and prayers contributed to a steady demand that helped spread literacy among the lower classes. Literacy was in general on the rise, with a near-universal literacy rate in Western Europe, Australia, and the United States of America by 1890, with the inequality between men and women's literacy starting to equalize by 1900. The printing press became increasingly mechanized. Early designs for metal and steam-powered printing presses were introduced in the early 19th century by inventors like Friederich Koenig and Charles Stanhope. However, they became widely adopted by the 1830s, particularly by newspapers such as the London Times. Around the same time, a revolution was triggered in paper production by Henry Fourdrinier and Thomas Gilpin, whose new paper-making machines output very wide continuous rolls of paper. The only bottleneck to book production was the time-consuming process of composition. This was eventually solved by Ottmar Mergenthaler and Tolbert Lanston who produced the Linotype and Monotype machines respectively. With these barriers removed book production exploded. Great strides began in the realm of publishing as authors began to enjoy early forms of Copyright protection. The Statute of Anne was passed in 1710, establishing basic rights for the author's intellectual property. This was superseded by the Copyright Act of 1814 which transferred sole rights to print work for twenty-eight years after publication. This was extended in 1842 to the author's lifetime plus seven years, or forty two years after first publication.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELyons2011116-59">[59]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment" title="Age of Enlightenment">Enlightenment</a> more books began to pour off European presses, creating an early form of <a href="/wiki/Information_overload" title="Information overload">information overload</a> for many readers. Nowhere was this more the case than in Enlightenment Scotland, where students were exposed to a wide variety of books during their education.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> The demands of the <a href="/wiki/British_and_Foreign_Bible_Society" title="British and Foreign Bible Society">British and Foreign Bible Society</a> (founded 1804), the <a href="/wiki/American_Bible_Society" title="American Bible Society">American Bible Society</a> (founded 1816), and other non-denominational publishers for enormously large inexpensive runs of texts led to numerous innovations. The introduction of steam printing presses a little before 1820, closely followed by new steam paper mills, constituted the two most major innovations. Together, they caused book prices to drop and the number of books to increase considerably. Numerous bibliographic features, like the positioning and formulation of titles and subtitles, were also affected by this new production method. New types of documents appeared later in the 19th century: photography, <a href="/wiki/Sound_recording" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound recording">sound recording</a> and film. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Contemporary_Period">Contemporary Period</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Contemporary Period">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Typewriter" title="Typewriter">Typewriters</a> and eventually, computer-based word processors and printers let people print and put together their own documents. <a href="/wiki/Desktop_publishing" title="Desktop publishing">Desktop publishing</a> is common in the 21st century. Among a series of developments that occurred in the 1990s, the spread of digital multimedia, which encodes texts, images, animations, and sounds in a unique and simple form was notable for the book publishing industry. <a href="/wiki/Hypertext" title="Hypertext">Hypertext</a> further improved access to information. Finally, the internet lowered production and distribution costs. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="E-books_and_the_future_of_the_book">E-books and the future of the book</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: E-books and the future of the book">edit</a>]</div> It is difficult to predict the future of the book in an era of fast-paced technological change.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> Anxieties about the "death of books" have been expressed throughout the history of the medium, perceived as threatened by competing media such as radio, television, and the Internet.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> However, these views are generally exaggerated, and "dominated by fetishism, fears about the end of humanism and ideas of techno-fundamentalist progress".<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> The print book medium has proven to be very resilient and adaptable. In the 2020s, print books still considerably outsell <a href="/wiki/Ebook" title="Ebook">ebooks</a> in most countries and remain a multi-billion dollar industry.<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a><a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a><a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> A good deal of reference material, designed for direct access instead of sequential reading, as for example encyclopedias, exists less and less in the form of books and increasingly on the web. Leisure reading materials are increasingly published in e-reader formats. Although electronic books, or e-books, had limited success in the early years, and readers were resistant at the outset, the demand for books in this format has grown dramatically, primarily because of the popularity of e-reader devices and as the number of available titles in this format has increased. Since the <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Kindle" title="Amazon Kindle">Amazon Kindle</a> was released in 2007, the e-book has become a digital phenomenon and many theorize that it will take over hardback and paper books in the future. E-books are much more accessible and easier to buy and it is also cheaper to purchase an E-Book rather than its physical counterpart due to paper expenses being deducted.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Another important factor in the increasing popularity of the e-reader is its continuous diversification. Many e-readers now support basic operating systems, which facilitate email and other simple functions. The <a href="/wiki/IPad" title="IPad">iPad</a> is the most obvious example of this trend, but even mobile phones can host e-reading software. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reading_for_the_blind">Reading for the blind</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Reading for the blind">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Braille" title="Braille">Braille</a> is a system of reading and writing through the use of the finger tips. Braille was developed as a system of efficient communication for blind and partially blind alike.<a href="#cite_note-:02-69">[69]</a> The system consists of sixty-three characters and is read left to right. These characters are made with small raised dots in two columns similar to a modern <a href="/wiki/Dominoes" title="Dominoes">domino piece</a> to represent each letter.<a href="#cite_note-:12-70">[70]</a> Readers can identify characters with two fingers. Reading speed averages one hundred and twenty-five words per minute and can reach two hundred words per minute.<a href="#cite_note-:02-69">[69]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_making_of_Braille">The making of Braille</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: The making of Braille">edit</a>]</div> Braille was named after its creator <a href="/wiki/Louis_Braille" title="Louis Braille">Louis Braille</a> in 1824 in France. Braille stabbed himself in the eyes at the age of three with his father's leatherworking tools.<a href="#cite_note-:02-69">[69]</a> Braille spent nine years working on a previous system of communication called <a href="/wiki/Night_writing" title="Night writing">night writing</a> by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barbier" title="Charles Barbier">Charles Barbier</a>. Braille published his book "procedure for writing words, music, and plainsong in dots", in 1829.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> In 1854 France made Braille the "official communication system for blind individuals".<a href="#cite_note-:02-69">[69]</a> <a href="/wiki/Valentin_Ha%C3%BCy" title="Valentin Haüy">Valentin Haüy</a> was the first person to put Braille on paper in the form of a book.<a href="#cite_note-:12-70">[70]</a> In 1932 Braille became accepted and used in English speaking countries.<a href="#cite_note-:12-70">[70]</a> In 1965 the Nemeth Code of Braille Mathematics and Scientific Notation was created. The code was developed to assign symbols to advanced mathematical notations and operations.<a href="#cite_note-:12-70">[70]</a> The system has remained the same, only minor adjustments have been made to it since its creation. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spoken_books">Spoken books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Spoken books">edit</a>]</div> The spoken book was originally created in the 1930s to provide the blind and visually impaired with a medium to enjoy books. In 1932 the <a href="/wiki/American_Foundation_for_the_Blind" title="American Foundation for the Blind">American Foundation for the Blind</a> created the first recordings of spoken books on vinyl records.<a href="#cite_note-:2-72">[72]</a> In 1935, a British-based foundation, <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Institute_of_Blind_People" title="Royal National Institute of Blind People">Royal National Institute for the Blind</a> (RNIB), was the first to deliver talking books to the blind on vinyl records.<a href="#cite_note-:2-72">[72]</a> Each record contained about thirty minutes of audio on both sides, and the records were played on a <a href="/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">gramophone</a>. Spoken books changed mediums in the 1960s with the transition from vinyl records to cassette tapes.<a href="#cite_note-:3-73">[73]</a> The next progression of spoken books came in the 1980s with the widespread use of compact discs. Compact discs reached more people and made it possible to listen to books in the car.<a href="#cite_note-:2-72">[72]</a> In 1995 the term <a href="/wiki/Audiobook" title="Audiobook">audiobook</a> became the industry standard.<a href="#cite_note-:3-73">[73]</a> Finally, the internet enabled audiobooks to become more accessible and portable. Audiobooks could now be played in their entirety instead of being split onto multiple disks.<a href="#cite_note-:3-73">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_study">Academic study</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Academic study">edit</a>]</div> The history of the book became an acknowledged <a href="/wiki/Academic_discipline" title="Academic discipline">academic discipline</a> in the latter half of the 20th century. It was fostered by <a href="/wiki/William_Ivins_Jr." title="William Ivins Jr.">William Ivins Jr.</a>'s Prints and Visual Communication (1953) and <a href="/wiki/Henri-Jean_Martin" title="Henri-Jean Martin">Henri-Jean Martin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lucien_Febvre" title="Lucien Febvre">Lucien Febvre</a>'s L'apparition du livre (The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing, 1450–1800) in 1958 as well as <a href="/wiki/Marshall_McLuhan" title="Marshall McLuhan">Marshall McLuhan</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Gutenberg_Galaxy" title="The Gutenberg Galaxy">Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man</a> (1962). Another notable pioneer in the history of the book is <a href="/wiki/Robert_Darnton" title="Robert Darnton">Robert Darnton</a>.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg/220px-Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="301" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg/330px-Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg/440px-Bucheinband.15.Jh.r.Inkunabel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1976" data-file-height="2708" /></a><figcaption>A 15th-century <a href="/wiki/Incunable" title="Incunable">Incunable</a>. Notice the blind-tooled cover, corner bosses, and clasps.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Gallery">edit</a>]</div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png" class="mw-file-description" title="European output of manuscripts 500–1500"><img alt="European output of manuscripts 500–1500" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png/120px-European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png/180px-European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png/240px-European_Output_of_Manuscripts_500%E2%80%931500.png 2x" data-file-width="1278" data-file-height="953" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">European output of manuscripts 500–1500</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png" class="mw-file-description" title="European output of printed books c. 1450–1800"><img alt="European output of printed books c. 1450–1800" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png/120px-European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="102" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png/180px-European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png/240px-European_Output_of_Printed_Books_ca._1450%E2%80%931800.png 2x" data-file-width="1121" data-file-height="953" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">European output of printed books c. 1450–1800</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><a href="/wiki/File:European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png" class="mw-file-description" title="European output of books 500–1800"><img alt="European output of books 500–1800" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png/120px-European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png/180px-European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png/240px-European_Output_of_Books_500%E2%80%931800.png 2x" data-file-width="1436" data-file-height="953" /></a></div> <div class="gallerytext">European output of books 500–1800</div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Category:Book_publishing_by_country" title="Category:Book publishing by country">Book publishing by country</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Centre_for_the_History_of_the_Book" title="Centre for the History of the Book">Centre for the History of the Book</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outline_of_books" title="Outline of books">Outline of books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Textual_scholarship" title="Textual scholarship">Textual scholarship</a></li></ul> <dl><dt>Specialized databases in book history</dt></dl> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/English_Short_Title_Catalogue" title="English Short Title Catalogue">English Short Title Catalogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_American_Imprints" title="Early American Imprints">Early American Imprints: Series I Evans, 1639-1800</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Early_English_Books_Online" class="mw-redirect" title="Early English Books Online">Early English Books Online</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incunabula_Short_Title_Catalogue" title="Incunabula Short Title Catalogue">Incunabula Short Title Catalogue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Universal_Short_Title_Catalogue" title="Universal Short Title Catalogue">Universal Short Title Catalogue</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a 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Los Angeles: Getty Publications. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-60606-083-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-60606-083-4"><bdi>978-1-60606-083-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Books%3A+A+Living+History&rft.place=Los+Angeles&rft.pub=Getty+Publications&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-1-60606-083-4&rft.aulast=Lyons&rft.aufirst=Martyn&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Further_reading_cleanup plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This "<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Layout#Further_reading" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Layout">Further reading</a>" section may need cleanup. Please read the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Further_reading" title="Wikipedia:Further reading">editing guide</a> and help improve the section. (August 2023) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Books">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Barker, Nicolas (2003). The Pleasures of Bibliophily: Fifty Years of the <a href="/wiki/Book_Collector" class="mw-redirect" title="Book Collector">Book Collector</a>, an Anthology. Edited by Nicolas J. Barker. London: British Library; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2003.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_M._Blair" title="Ann M. Blair">Blair, Ann</a> (2010). Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age. Yale University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300165395" title="Special:BookSources/978-0300165395">978-0300165395</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBland2013" class="citation book cs1">Bland, Mark (2013). A guide to early printed books and manuscripts. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781405124126" title="Special:BookSources/9781405124126"><bdi>9781405124126</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+guide+to+early+printed+books+and+manuscripts&rft.place=Malden%2C+MA&rft.pub=Wiley-Blackwell&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9781405124126&rft.aulast=Bland&rft.aufirst=Mark&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChow2004" class="citation book cs1">Chow, Kai-Wing (2004). Publishing, Culture, and Power in Early Modern China. Stanford: Stanford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8047-3368-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-8047-3368-6"><bdi>0-8047-3368-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Publishing%2C+Culture%2C+and+Power+in+Early+Modern+China&rft.place=Stanford&rft.pub=Stanford+University+Press&rft.date=2004&rft.isbn=0-8047-3368-6&rft.aulast=Chow&rft.aufirst=Kai-Wing&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Craughwell, Thomas J., and Damon Smith (2004). Q.P.B. Short History of the Paperback, and Other Milestones in Publishing. New and updated ed. New York: Quality Paperback Book Club. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-58288-104-9" title="Special:BookSources/1-58288-104-9">1-58288-104-9</a></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDane2003" class="citation book cs1">Dane, Joseph (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/mythofprintcultu0000dane">The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method</a>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8020-8775-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-8020-8775-2"><bdi>0-8020-8775-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Myth+of+Print+Culture%3A+Essays+on+Evidence%2C+Textuality%2C+and+Bibliographical+Method&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-8020-8775-2&rft.aulast=Dane&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fmythofprintcultu0000dane&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Dane, J. (2012). What Is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books. University of Notre Dame Press.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDiringer1982" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/David_Diringer" title="David Diringer">Diringer, David</a> (1982). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bookbeforeprinti0000diri">The book before printing : ancient, medieval, and oriental</a>. New York: Dover. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-486-24243-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-486-24243-9"><bdi>0-486-24243-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+book+before+printing+%3A+ancient%2C+medieval%2C+and+oriental&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Dover&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0-486-24243-9&rft.aulast=Diringer&rft.aufirst=David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbookbeforeprinti0000diri&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEisenstein2005" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Eisenstein" title="Elizabeth Eisenstein">Eisenstein, Elizabeth</a> (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/printingrevoluti00eise_0">The printing revolution in early modern Europe</a>. Cambridge UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-84543-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-84543-2"><bdi>0-521-84543-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+printing+revolution+in+early+modern+Europe&rft.place=Cambridge+UK%3B+New+York&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-521-84543-2&rft.aulast=Eisenstein&rft.aufirst=Elizabeth&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fprintingrevoluti00eise_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFebvreHenri-Jean_Martin1997" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Lucien_Febvre" title="Lucien Febvre">Febvre, Lucien</a>; <a href="/wiki/Henri-Jean_Martin" title="Henri-Jean Martin">Henri-Jean Martin</a> (1997). The coming of the book : the impact of printing 1450–1800. London: Verso. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85984-108-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-85984-108-2"><bdi>1-85984-108-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+coming+of+the+book+%3A+the+impact+of+printing+1450%E2%80%931800&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Verso&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=1-85984-108-2&rft.aulast=Febvre&rft.aufirst=Lucien&rft.au=Henri-Jean+Martin&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"> tr. by David Gerard; ed. by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton; Note : reprint, other reprints by this publisher 1990 & 1984, originally published (London : N.L.B., 1976); Translation of L'apparition du livre.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFinkelstein2005" class="citation book cs1">Finkelstein, David (2005). An introduction to book history. New York: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-415-31442-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-415-31442-9"><bdi>0-415-31442-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+introduction+to+book+history&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-415-31442-9&rft.aulast=Finkelstein&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFischer2010" class="citation book cs1">Fischer, Ernst (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0159-20100921223">The Book Market</a>. Mainz: <a href="/wiki/Leibniz_Institute_of_European_History" title="Leibniz Institute of European History">Leibniz Institute of European History</a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/692301471">692301471</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Book+Market&rft.place=Mainz&rft.pub=Leibniz+Institute+of+European+History&rft.date=2010&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F692301471&rft.aulast=Fischer&rft.aufirst=Ernst&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnbn-resolving.de%2Furn%3Anbn%3Ade%3A0159-20100921223&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHall1996" class="citation book cs1">Hall, David (1996). Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book. Amherst: <a href="/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Press" title="University of Massachusetts Press">University of Massachusetts Press</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-585-14207-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-585-14207-6"><bdi>0-585-14207-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cultures+of+Print%3A+Essays+in+the+History+of+the+Book&rft.place=Amherst&rft.pub=University+of+Massachusetts+Press&rft.date=1996&rft.isbn=0-585-14207-6&rft.aulast=Hall&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHowsam2006" class="citation book cs1">Howsam, Leslie (2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oldbooksnewhisto0000hows">Old Books and New Histories: An orientation to studies in book and print culture</a>. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8020-9438-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8020-9438-4"><bdi>978-0-8020-9438-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Old+Books+and+New+Histories%3A+An+orientation+to+studies+in+book+and+print+culture&rft.place=Toronto&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-8020-9438-4&rft.aulast=Howsam&rft.aufirst=Leslie&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foldbooksnewhisto0000hows&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohns1998" class="citation book cs1">Johns, Adrian (1998). The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-226-40122-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-226-40122-5"><bdi>978-0-226-40122-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Nature+of+the+Book%3A+Print+and+Knowledge+in+the+Making&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=The+University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=978-0-226-40122-5&rft.aulast=Johns&rft.aufirst=Adrian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKatz1998" class="citation book cs1">Katz, Bill (1998). Cuneiform to computer : a history of reference sources. Lanham Md.: Scarecrow Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8108-3290-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-8108-3290-9"><bdi>0-8108-3290-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Cuneiform+to+computer+%3A+a+history+of+reference+sources&rft.place=Lanham+Md.&rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&rft.date=1998&rft.isbn=0-8108-3290-9&rft.aulast=Katz&rft.aufirst=Bill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"> Series : History of the book, no. 4.</li> <li>Martin, H.-J., Chatelain, J.-M. (2000). La naissance du livre moderne, XIVe-XVIIe siècles : mise en page et mise en texte du livre français. Éditions du Cercle de la librairie.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcKitterick2003" class="citation book cs1">McKitterick, David (2003). Print, Manuscript and the Search for Order, 1450–1830. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-521-82690-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-521-82690-X"><bdi>0-521-82690-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Print%2C+Manuscript+and+the+Search+for+Order%2C+1450%E2%80%931830&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-521-82690-X&rft.aulast=McKitterick&rft.aufirst=David&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Pangallo, M. A., & Todd, E. B. (2023). Teaching the history of the book. University of Massachusetts Press.</li> <li>Patten, E., McElligott, J. (Eds). (2014). The perils of print culture: book, print and publishing history in theory and practice. Palgrave Macmillan.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leah_Price" title="Leah Price">Price, Leah</a> (2012). How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0691114170" title="Special:BookSources/978-0691114170">978-0691114170</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRaven2018" class="citation book cs1">Raven, James (2018). What is the History of the Book?. Cambridge: Polity Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7456-4161-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7456-4161-4"><bdi>978-0-7456-4161-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=What+is+the+History+of+the+Book%3F&rft.place=Cambridge&rft.pub=Polity+Press&rft.date=2018&rft.isbn=978-0-7456-4161-4&rft.aulast=Raven&rft.aufirst=James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Reed, M., & Wagner, B. (Eds). (2010). Early Printed Books as Material Objects : Proceeding of the Conference Organized by the IFLA Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Munich, 19-21 August 2009. De Gruyter Saur.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWarner1990" class="citation book cs1">Warner, Michael (1990). The Letters of the Republic: Publication and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-674-52785-2" title="Special:BookSources/0-674-52785-2"><bdi>0-674-52785-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Letters+of+the+Republic%3A+Publication+and+the+Public+Sphere+in+Eighteenth-Century+America&rft.place=Cambridge%2C+MA&rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-674-52785-2&rft.aulast=Warner&rft.aufirst=Michael&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AHistory+of+books" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publishers'_series">Publishers' series</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Publishers' series">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Publishing and Book Culture (<a href="/wiki/Cambridge_University_Press" title="Cambridge University Press">Cambridge University Press</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/publishing-and-book-culture">Publishing and Book Culture</a></li> <li>Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World (<a href="/wiki/Brill_Publishers" title="Brill Publishers">Brill</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://brill.com/view/serial/LWWH">Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World</a></li> <li>Material Texts (Penn Press) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://site.pennpress.org/material-texts-2021/material-texts/">Material Texts</a></li> <li>New Directions in Book History (<a href="/wiki/Palgrave_Macmillan" title="Palgrave Macmillan">Palgrave Macmillan</a>) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://link.springer.com/series/14749">New Directions in Book History</a></li> <li>Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.umasspress.com/search-results/?series=studies-in-print-culture-and-the-history-of-the-book">Search grid</a></li> <li>Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital (Routledge) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.routledge.com/Studies-in-Publishing-History-Manuscript-Print-Digital/book-series/ASHSER2110">Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital: Studies in Publishing History: Manuscript, Print, Digital - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press</a></li> <li>Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (SVEC) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/oxford-university-studies-in-the-enlightenment/">Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Periodicals">Periodicals</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=History_of_books&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Periodicals">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Annual 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