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 of the book covers all the 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 2,000--that could be used in booksellers' catalogs, library records, and collectors' descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including:
The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography--more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries.
More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.