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The Book: Its History and Development

Chapter 14: Transcriber’s Notes:
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The text traces the development of written records and bookmaking from prehistoric marks and palm-leaf manuscripts through rolls, medieval codices, and modern bindings, examining materials such as papyrus, vellum, and paper, and technical processes including sewing, rounding, watermarks, and printing. It surveys illustration techniques, leather varieties, decorative practices both blind and gold tooling, regional binding styles, and miscellaneous features like edges, headbands, and chained books, and includes illustrative plates and examples of notable bindings.

Transcriber’s Notes:

The single footnote has been moved to the end of its chapter.

Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.

Punctuation has been made consistent.

Variations in spelling, hyphenation, and accenting were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected.

p. 62: βυβλοἱ transliterates into English as bubloi.

p. 144: Ναβουχοδονὀσωρ Εσαει ζῆθι transliterates into English as Nabouchodonosôr Esaei zêthi.

p. 180: βασιλικον Δωρον transliterates into English as basilikon Dôron.

p. 251: Βασιλικον Δωρον transliterates into English as: Basilikon Dôron.

Several Index entries are spelled differently than their targets, including:

p. 252: Marillier versus Marillien on p. 123 (Marillier, J. P., line)

p. 252: Meissonnier versus Meissonier on p. 115 (Meissonnier, artist, 115)

p. 254: Porrett versus Porret on p. 114 (Porrett, wood engraver)

p. 256: Humanæ versus Humanae on p. 90 (Speculum, Humanæ Salvationis)

p. 256: Simounet versus Simonnet on p. 122 (Simounet, J. B., line)

The following changes were made:

p. 245: page number 122 added (line engraver, 122.)

p. 248: Dupréal was changed to Dupréel (Dupréel, line engraver)