Yale University Library Research Guides: History of the Bible &amp; the Book: History of Books

History of Books: Encyclopedias

The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book by Leslie Howsam (Editor) A wide-ranging account of the history of the book and its ways of thinking about works from ancient inscription to contemporary e-books, discussing thematic, chronological and methodological aspects of this interdisciplinary field.
Companion to the History of the Book (2 vols.)-Online by Jonathan Rose (Editor); Simon Eliot (Editor) 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 Oxford Companion to the Book (2 vols.) by Michael Suarez SJ; H. R. Woudhuysen (eds.) Nineteen of the essays provide generic histories of the subject ranging from writing systems, the ancient and the medieval book, through central aspects of book production, to theories of text, editorial theory and textual criticism, the economics of print, and the sacred book. These are complemented by 29 surveys of the history of the book around the world, including the Muslim world, Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Call Number: BEINECKE, Reference, Z4 O89 2010 (LC)
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book by James Raven (Editor) In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present.

The Book: A Global History by Michael F. Suarez (Editor); H. R. Wooudhuysen (Editor) A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume.
The Global Histories of Books: Methods and Practices (Online) by Elleke Boehmer, Rouven Kunstmann, Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, Asha Rogers (editors) An edited volume of essays that showcases how books played a crucial role in making and materializing histories of travel, scientific exchanges, translation, and global markets from the late-eighteenth century to the present.
A History of Reading in the West by Guglielmo Cavallo (Editor); Roger Chartier (Editor)

Cambridge Studies in Paleography and Codicology A series that focuses on the study of manuscripts from the middle ages to the Renaissance. It will include books devoted to particular types of manuscript, their production and circulation, to individual codices of outstanding importance, and to regions, periods and scripts of especial interest to scholars.
Library of the Written Word A book series that publishes monographs, edited volumes, source materials and bibliographies on a variety of subjects, related to the history of the book, magazines and newspapers.
Oxford Textual Perspectives A book series that engages with the materiality of a literary text, its production, and reception history, and frequently testing and exploring the boundaries of the notion of text itself,
Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History This series encompasses books on aspects of publishing and printing history - on the impact of print and the means by which the printed word was prepared for public consumption - from Caxton to the present day.

The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain (7 volumes)-Online by Malcolm R. Godden (Editor); Richard Gameson (Editor) A comprehensive survey of the history of the book in Britain from Roman through Anglo-Saxon to early Norman times. Volume 1 is on 400-1100, volume 2 on 1100-1400, volume 3 on 1400-1557, Volume 4 on 1557-1695, volume 5 on 1695-1830, volume 6 on 1830-1914, and volume 7 on twentieth century to the present.