A Companion to the History of the Book (103 page)

prayer-books

Préaux Gospels

prediction, astronomical

press laws

pressmen

Price, Leah

prices: eighteenth century fixed book price morality nineteenth century paperbacks reductions sixteenth century wages
see also
book piracy

primers

print culture: communication democratization India libraries literacy manuscript books Ming dynasty nation-building negative trade balance

printers

printing: Asia Catholic Church colonial functions color digital English language folding globalization handcrafted Hebrew Humanism impact on history invention jobbing mass production music privileges Reformation as ritual act spread of woodblock

Printing Act (1662)

printing presses book production hand-press hot metal intaglio iron Latin America public sphere rotary Spanish American colonies steam-driven
see also
specific presses

printing rights, Scotland

print-on-demand

print-runs: bibliometrics fifteenth century learned work nineteenth century paperbacks poetry sixteenth century stereotyping UK

Prisma

Production Trends Database,
South Africa

proofreaders

proofs

propaganda

property rights

ProQuest

Protestantism

Protestation Oath of Loyalty to Parliament

Proudfoot, Ian

Proulx, E. Annie

provenance of books

Prudentius, Marcus

Psalms, extracts

Psalters
see also
specific Psalters

Pseudo-Apuleius

pseudonyms

Ptolemy I Soter

public access online catalogue (OPAC)

public domain

Public Lending Right

Public Libraries Act (1850), UK

public readings

Public Record Office

public sphere: digital Enlightenment expanding newspapers printing presses private sphere

publication publisher—booksellers

publishers China exiled genre labels going public literary profession novels public ownership stationers UK

Publishers’ Association

Publishers’ Circular

publishers’ readers

Publishers’ Weekly

publishing: Asia digital processes Egypt gender/social class factors independent Japan religion Spain swings and roundabouts principle US Victorian

publishing historians

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pulitzer prize

pulp fiction

Punch

punch-cutting

punched-paper tape method

punctuation

Puritans

purity movements

Putnam, G. P.

Puzo, Mario

Pynson, Richard

al-Qabbam, ’Abd al-Qadir

Qianlong emperor
Siku quanshu
collections

Qin dynasty

Qing period

quantitative analysis book trade limitations statistical methods

QuarkXPress

quarto editions

Queen
v.
Hicklin

Quentin, Dom Henri

Querido publishers

Questia Media Inc.

questionnaires

quipus,
Peru

quires

quoc ngu
script

Quoin, Interset

Quran: divination Kufic script lithography oral culture ornamentation paper standardization of text

Rabelais, François

Radcliffe, Ann

radio rights

Radway, Janice A.

railway bookstalls

Railway Library

railway novels

railways: communication distribution timetables

Rainey, Lawrence

Rama, Angel

Rambler

Random House: Ballantine
The Bookseller
Cape/Bertelsmann Saxe Commins Modern Library Newhouse public ownership VCRs Vintage imprints Kurt Vonnegut

The Random House Dictionary of the English
Language

Ransom Library

Ranson, Jean

Raphael

Rappaport, Barrie

al-Rashid, Harun

raster image processor (RIP)

Ratdolt, Erhard

Ratislaw, king of Moravia

Ravenna

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

RCA

RCAVideoComp

readers authors Bible Brazil and cinema consumers demand diaries historical newspapers novels occupational status ownership social class statistics women
see also
publishers’ readers
Reader’s Digest Repair Manual

Readers’ Union

reading aloud Robert Darnton on ethnography extensive/intensive groups library

records passion for for pleasure popular as reconfiguration revolutions in scrolling/scanning skills as social process

Reading, Thomas

Reading at Risk

Reading Experience Database

rebinding

recitation

Reclam, Philip

re-copying

recording techniques, Mesoamericans

recto

Red Book of King’s Lynn

Redgrave, G. R.

Reed, John

Reed Elsevier

The Reference Catalogue to Current Literature

reference works
see also
dictionaries; encyclopedias Reformation

Regularis Concordia

Reich, Philip Erasmus

Reiman, Donald H.

religious titles accuracy

America Asia bestsellers bindings canon charitable organizations decline in education Europe pamphlets publishing industry tracts
see also
Bibles

Religious Tract Society

Renaissance

Renaudot, Théophraste

Repgow, Eike von

Reports by the Juries
repressive hypothesis

reprinters

reprints: Netherlands nineteenth century part-publications protection public domain rights Romantic period US

reproduction of art

Repton, Humphrey

Research Libraries Group

Rêsh temple library

Reuwich, Erhard

Review of Reviews

Rewards of Merit

Rey, Marc-Michel

Reybaud, Louis

Reynolds, George W. M.

Reynolds, Paul Revere

Reynolds’s Miscellany

Riancey amendment

Richards, Grant

Richardson, Samuel
Vamela

rich-text format (RTF)

Rickards, Maurice

Rittenhouse, David

ritual writings

Rivington, James

Roach’s Circulating Library

Robert, Nicholas-Louis

Roberts, C. H.

Roberts, Larry

Robertson, George

Robertson, William

Robinson, Anthony

rococo style

Rodriguez Marin, Francisco

Rogers, Bruce

Rolewinck, Werner

rolling press

Rollo, duke

Roman empire

Roman statuary

roman type

Romanesque culture

Romantic period

Rome

Roret publisher

Rosato, George

Rose, Jonathan

Rosenthal, Leeser

Rosetta Books

Rossi, Benjamin

Roth
v.
US

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Routledge

Routledge & Kegan Paul

Row, Peterson

Rowlandson, Mary

Rowling, J. K.

Rowohlt publishers

royalty system

Roylance, Dale

Rulle convent

runes

Ruscha, Ed

Rush, Benjamin

Rushdie, Salman

Ruskin, John

Russel, Robert

Russell, Bertrand

Russia

Russian literature, in US

Russian Orthodox Church

Sabar, Shalom l62

Sabin, Joseph

Safari Techbooks On-line

Safavid Persians

St. Augustine Gospels

St. Clair, William

St. Columba, Psalter of

St. Cuthbert Gospel

St. John Hornby, C. H.

St. John-Stevas, Norman

Saint Leger, Didot

St. Paul’s Churchyard

St. Petersburg

Sainte-Beuve, Augustin

Saladin

Salani, Adriano

sales data

Sallo, Denis de

Salmon, Thomas

Salutati, Coluccio

Samarqand

Samely, Alexander

samizdat
literature

San Vito Bible

Sand, George

Sanguk S agi

Sanskrit

Sappho

Sarkis, Khalil

Saturday Evening Post

Saunders, David

Saunders, Richard

Savage, William

Savile, Gertrude

Sayers, Dorothy L.

scanning of books

Scarron, Paul

Schauer, Frederick

Schedel, Hartmann

Scherz & Hallwag

Scherz Phoenix Books

Schiffnn, André

Schiffrin, Jacques

Schiller, Friedrich

Schmidt, Anton

Schmied, François-Louis

Schnitzler, Arthur

Schoeffer, Peter

scholars
see also
universities

School of Library Service

Schudson, Michael

Scientific Citation Index

scientific method

scientific publishing

Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (STAR)

Scotland: book production book trade customs records literacy printing printing rights

Scott, Sir James George

Scott, Sir Walter: America Constable fame India sales of books

Scottish Typographical Society

scribal schools

scribes apprentices cuneiform Hebrew Hindu Latin manuscripts monastic Muslim named Norman nuns payment reproduction slaves status Sumerian women

Scribner publishers

Scribner’s

scriptoria

scripts

Scripture writings, illustrated
see also
Bibles

scrolls
see also
papyrus rolls

Scrutiny

Scudder, Horace

search processes

Seaside Library

Seeker, William

Seeker & Warburg

second-hand books

secret books

Sedgwick, Catherine Maria

Sedition Act (1798), US

Sedo, DeNel Rehberg

Ségure, Comtesse de

Sejong, King

Selby, Hubert Jr.

self-improvement

self-publishing

Sendak, Maurice

Seneca

Senefelder, Alois

Sennacherib

Seojeogweon

Sephardic manuscripts

serialization

Seuss, Dr. (Theodore Geisel)

Sewell, Samuel

sewing techniques, Coptic

sexuality

Seymour, M. C.

Sforza, Francesco

SGML (standard generalized mark-up language)

Shah, Eddie

Shakespeare, William First Folio

Shamash-êtir

Shang dynasty

Shangshu
(Book of Documents)

Shannon, Claude

share-book system

Shaw, George Bernard

Sheldon-Williams, I. P.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe:
Revolt of Islam

Shen Gua

Sheridan, Richard

Sherlock Holmes stories

Shi Huang, emperor

al-Shidiaq, Fans

Shiite theology

Shillingsburg, Peter L.

Shipley, Jonathan

Shirley, John

Shorten janpu
magazine

Short, Thomas

short stories, magazines

Short Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England,
Scotland and Ireland

short-title catalogue of incunabula (ISTC)

show trials

shrines for books

Shufu no tomo

Shuger, Debora

shutao
(case for book)

Sienkiewicz, Henryk

signatures

Signet Books

Siky quanshu
(Four Libraries collection)

Silent Movie

silk books

sillyboi
(content tags)

SilverPlatter Information Inc.

Simenon, Georges

Simmons, R. C.

Simon, Claude

Simon & Schuster

Simpkin, Marshall

The Simpsons

Sinclair, Upton

Singapore

Singh, Bhagat

Sisson, C. H.

sixteenmo editions

Skeat, T. C.

sketchers

slavery

Slovakia

Smiles, Samuel

Smith, Adam

Smith, Eli

Smith, George

Smith, John

Smith, Keith

Smith, Philip

Smith, Sydney

Smith, W. H.: book clubs circulating library railway bookstalls shop fronts

Smithers, Leonard

smuggling

Snyder, Richard

social capital

social class: book collections libraries literacy morality novels obscenity readership self-improvement
see also
elite; middle class; working class

social history: diaries ephemera

socialism

Société des Gens des Lettres

Société Typographique de Neuchâtel

Society of Authors

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP)

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts

Society for the Suppression of Public Obscenity

Society for Textual Scholarship

Socrates

Soiscél Molaise

Solis, Antonio de Soncino printers

Song dynasty

Song of Roland

Sony

Sophists

Sorbonne

South Africa

South African National Bibliography

Southey, Robert

Soviet Union

Spain: book production censorship Civil War copyright and England expulsion of Jews Franco regime Islamic rule literacy Muslim library publishing vernacular Visigoths

Spanish American colonies censorship circulation of books Enlightenment European cultural domination Thomas Gage independence literacy national identities newspapers printing presses Spanish literature

Spanish-language books, France

specialist books

spectacles

Spectator

Speigelman, Art

Spinoza, Baruch

sports books

Springer publishing

Springmount Bog Tablets