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Book Makers: British publishing in the 20th century

Book Makers: British publishing in the 20th century While the economics and uses of print have done, and continue to do, much to drive the engine of print, the inescapable fact is that print remains the glory of the dissemination of much of the knowledge which humankind has so laboriously accumulated over eight millennia. The fact of the widespread preferences for vari- ous forms of entertainment or re- cruitment undertakings in no way mitigates or diminishes the prime cultural function of the serious printed book. Nor does Pettegree in any way seek to advance such a hy- pothesis. On the contrary, it seems almost a certainty that a medieval historian who has devoted years to researching and writing about the book was at the beginning taken by curiosity about the historic role of that instrument and its inven- tion in the unexpected subsequent flourishing of the culture of the West. Those of us similarly curious about and taken by the historic role of the book in the West now stand in deep debt to Pettegree and his studies and initiatives related to this study of the history thereof. It provides a reassuring depth of un- derstanding useful to the bookish. And it clarif ies and gives http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

Book Makers: British publishing in the 20th century

Logos , Volume 22 (2): 53 – Jan 1, 2011
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Brill
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© 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0957-9656
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1878-4712
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10.1163/095796511x580356
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While the economics and uses of print have done, and continue to do, much to drive the engine of print, the inescapable fact is that print remains the glory of the dissemination of much of the knowledge which humankind has so laboriously accumulated over eight millennia. The fact of the widespread preferences for vari- ous forms of entertainment or re- cruitment undertakings in no way mitigates or diminishes the prime cultural function of the serious printed book. Nor does Pettegree in any way seek to advance such a hy- pothesis. On the contrary, it seems almost a certainty that a medieval historian who has devoted years to researching and writing about the book was at the beginning taken by curiosity about the historic role of that instrument and its inven- tion in the unexpected subsequent flourishing of the culture of the West. Those of us similarly curious about and taken by the historic role of the book in the West now stand in deep debt to Pettegree and his studies and initiatives related to this study of the history thereof. It provides a reassuring depth of un- derstanding useful to the bookish. And it clarif ies and gives

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