The text explores the many approaches to the book from the early clay tablets of Sumer, Assyria and Babylonia to today’s burgeoning electronic devices. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to present current research on paper, printing, binding, scientific publishing, the history of maps, music and print, the profession of authorship and lexicography. The revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expanded