Old Books, New Technologies : The Representation, Conservation and Transformation of Books since 1700.

Wide-ranging study that explores how 'old books' have been represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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Author / Creator: McKitterick, David.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 The past in pixels -- A new world -- Loss and gain -- Cheap print transformed -- From private interest to public access -- Boundaries and perspectives -- Limits of this book -- 2 Restoration and invention -- Cleaning and alteration -- Mixing, matching and completing -- 3 Conservation, counterfeiting and bookbinding -- 4 Representation and imitation -- A question of integrity -- Typographical survivals -- Imitation and revival -- Allusive printing and editorial resurrections -- 5 From copying to facsimile -- Three-dimensional copying -- Copying and print -- John Harris -- In the wake of Harris -- 6 The arrival of photography -- The beginnings of photography -- Photography and books -- Photozincography and photolithography -- Type facsimiles -- 7 Public exhibition -- Access by display -- Access by print -- Library exhibition -- 8 The Caxton exhibition of 1877 -- Nations on display -- The Caxton anniversary -- Facsimiles of Caxton's work -- 9 A bibliographical and public revolution -- Bibliography and cataloguing -- 10 Conclusion -- Notes -- 1 The past in pixels -- 2 Restoration and invention -- 3 Conservation, counterfeiting and bookbinding -- 4 Representation and imitation -- 5 From copying to facsimile -- 6 The arrival of photography -- 7 Public exhibition -- 8 The Caxton exhibition of 1877 -- 9 A bibliographical and public revolution -- 10 Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Index. 
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650 0 |a Publishers and publishing -- Technological innovations. 
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650 0 |a Books -- Conservation and restoration -- History. 
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