A Companion to the History of the Book

“If you want to understand how cultures come into being, endure, and change, [the editors] imply, then you need to come to terms with the rich and often surprising history of the book .... Eliot and Rose have done a fine job. Their volume can be heartily recommended as the best available starting point for any historian interested in learning about this enterprise . . . the
Companion
does not restrict itself to chronicling the development of the book itself. It also devotes attention to regimes of regulation and jurisdiction – censorship, intellectual property, and the like – and to systems of storage and taxonomy-libraries and bibliography.”
Adrian Johns, Technology and Culture

“A valuable resource. Academic libraries with any kind of interest in the history of the book or the history of publishing will want this
Companion
on their shelves.”
Publishing Research Quarterly

“An exceptional resource for anyone working in fields such as literature, history, cultural studies or media studies – to name a few. Drawing on a large group of experts, Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose have compiled a selection of essays that guide readers through many episodes in the long history of books, both inside and outside the Western tradition ... A
Companion to the History of the Book
is just that – a companion ... an essential text for students and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines who are led to ask questions about the commissioning, publication, distribution and consumption of books. This book is a milestone in the history of the book for it makes the first attempt to map the field like no other book before it.”
Script and Print

“This book serves as a coherent guide to the study of the history of the book. The experts bring the latest research to their work.”

Umbrella Magazine

“A Companion to the History of the Book
provides a wealth of information to readers of all levels in a well laid out and written volume ... a very solid foundation to the history of the book.”

The Bonefolder

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

This series offers comprehensive, newly written surveys of key periods and movements and certain major authors, in English literary culture and history. Extensive volumes provide new perspectives and positions on contexts and on canonical and post-canonical texts, orientating the beginning student in new fields of study and providing the expe�rienced undergraduate and new graduate with current and new directions, as pioneered and developed by leading scholars in the field.

Published

1.	A Companion to Romanticism	Edited by Duncan Wu
2.	A Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture	Edited by Herbert F. Tucker
3.	A Companion to Shakespeare	Edited by David Scott Kastan
4.	A Companion to the Gothic	Edited by David Punter
5.	A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare	Edited by Dympna Callaghan
6.	A Companion to Chaucer	Edited by Peter Brown
7.	A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake	Edited by David Womersley
8.	A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture	Edited by Michael Hattaway
9.	A Companion to Milton	Edited by Thomas N. Corns
10.	A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry	Edited by Neil Roberts
11.	A Companion to Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture	Edited by Phillip Pulsiano and Elaine Treharne
12.	A Companion to Restoration Drama	Edited by Susan J. Owen
13.	A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing	Edited by Anita Pacheco
14.	A Companion to Renaissance Drama	Edited by Arthur F. Kinney
15.	A Companion to Victorian Poetry	Edited by Richard Cronin, Alison Chapman, and Antony H. Harrison
16.	A Companion to the Victorian Novel	Edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing
17-20.	A Companion to Shakespeare's Works: Volumes I–IV	Edited by Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard
21.	A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America	Edited by Charles L. Crow
22	A Companion to Rhetoric and Rhetorical Criticism	Edited by Walter Jost and Wendy Olmsted
23.	A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South	Edited by Richard Gray and Owen Robinson
24.	A Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865	Edited by Shirley Samuels
25.	A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914	Edited by Robert Paul Lamb and Cj. R. Ihompson
26.	A Companion to Digital Humanities	Edited by Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, and John Unsworth
27.	A Companion to Romance	Edited by Corinne Saunders
28.	A Companion to the British and Irish Novel 1945–2000	Edited by Brian W. Shaffer
29.	A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama	Edited by David Krasner
30.	A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture	Edited by Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia
31.	A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture	Edited by Rory McTurk
32.	A Companion to Tragedy	Edited by Rebecca Bushnell
33.	A Companion to Narrative Theory	Edited by James Phelan and Peter J. Rabinowitz
34.	A Companion to Science Fiction	Edited by David Seed
35.	A Companion to the Literatures of Colonial America	Edited by Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer
36.	A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance	Edited by Barbara Hodgdon and W B. Worthen
37.	A Companion to Mark Twain	Edited by Peter Messent and Louis J. Budd
38.	A Companion to European Romanticism	Edited by Michael K. Ferber
39.	A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture	Edited by David Bradshaw and Kevin J. H. Dettmar
40.	A Companion to Walt Whitman	Edited by Donald D. Kummings
41.	A Companion to Herman Melville	Edited by Wyn Kelley
42.	A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350–c. 1500	Edited by Peter brown
43.	A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama: 1880–2005	Edited by Mary Luckhurst
44.	A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry	Edited by Christine Gerrard
45.	A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets	Edited by Michael Schoenfeldt
46.	A Companion to Satire	Edited by Ruben Quintero
47.	A Companion to William Faulkner	Edited by Richard C. Moreland
48.	A Companion to the History of the Book	Edited by Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose
49.	A Companion to Emily Dickinson	Edited by Martha Nell Smith and Mary Loeffelholz
50.	A Companion to Digital Literary Studies	Edited by Ray Siemens and Susan Schreibman
51.	A Companion to Charles Dickens	Edited by David Paroissien
52.	A Companion to James Joyce	Edited by Richard Brown
53.	A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture	Edited by Sara Castro-Klaren
54.	A Companion to the History of the English Language	Edited by Haruko Momma and Michael Matto
55.	A Companion to Henry James	Edited by Greg Zacharias
56.	A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story	Edited by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm and David Malcolm
57.	A Companion to Jane Austen	Edited by Claudia L. Johnson and Clara Tuite
58.	A Companion to the Arthurian Literature	Edited by Helen Fulton
59.	A Companion to the Modern American Novel: 1900–1950	Edited by John Matthews
60.	A Companion to the Global Renaiissance	Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh
61.	A Companion to Thomas Hardy	Edited by Keith Wilson

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