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History of the Book

University of Maryland
Dept. Code: 
LBSC
Course Number: 
708B
Course Credits: 
3
Course Instructor: 
Staff
Offered Online: 
No

Discusses the history of the book before printing and after, from the 16th century up though the discussion of modern and post modern printing, including topics such as incunabula, book illustration before 1800, lithography and book illustration after 1800, the mechanized book and the mass book trade, the fine press and book collecting