The Dictionary of the Book

This new edition of 'The Dictionary of the Book' adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary covers all terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term - more than 2000 - that could be used in booksellers' catalogues, library records, and collectors' descriptions of their holdings is represented.