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The world of the book / Des Cowley and Clare Williamson.

The world of the book / Des Cowley and Clare Williamson.
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ISBN 9780522872729 (paperback)
Name Cowley, Des author.
Title The world of the book / Des Cowley and Clare Williamson.
Published ©2007
Carlton, Victoria : The Miegunyah Press, an imprint of Melbourne University Publishing Limited : in .association with the State Library of Victoria, 2017.
Description xi, 247 pages : colour illustrations,maps, facsimilies ; 27 cm.
Notes Originally published in 2007.
Includes index.
Bibliography : pages 236-237.
Contents Machine generated contents note: I.Books and Ideas -- The book before the book -- The illuminated manuscript -- The printed book -- The sacred book -- The world in a book -- Books that changed the world -- II.The Book and the Imagination -- Literary foundations -- Imaginary voyages -- The modernist experiment: Joyce and his circle -- The paperback revolution -- The beat goes on -- The popular imagination -- Where imagination begins -- III.Exploring the World -- Venturing out -- Other lands -- Journeys into the past -- Terra Australis -- A closer look -- The natural world -- IV.The Artist and the Book -- The art of the book -- The book in Edo Japan -- The artist as illustrator -- William Morris and the private press movement -- Artists' books -- Designing books.
Summary A stunning new edition to coincide with the State Library of Victoria's exhibition on the wonderful world of books.The World of the Book pays homage to our love of books, and demonstrates the book's long and rich traditions and its great contributions to modern life. 'All earthly existence must ultimately be contained in a book.' French poet Stéphane Mallarmé understood that books hold the world's stories. From the earliest known myths and legends to postmodern fictions, books are mirrors of real worlds, windows into imagined worlds and keepers of powerful ideas. Beautifully illustrated, The World of the Book is a celebration of this age-old tradition drawing upon the rare collections of the State Library of Victoria. A journey through time and across the globe, this volume features great books and publishing innovations of the past and present. It also revels in the sheer beauty of books as objects to be desired and treasured. Within these covers you will discover an illuminated manuscript created for the Medici family of Florence in 1479; masterpieces of early printing, such as Gutenberg's Bible and Aldus Manutius's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili; books recording the scientific discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo.
Subjects Books -- History
Books
Book design
Illustration of books
Book industries and trade -- History
Popular culture -- History
Other Names Williamson, Clare author.
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