Bradin Cormack,Carla Mazzio — Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700

Chicago, The University of Chicago Library, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Book Use, Book Theory: 1500-1700 is bound in a tall, illustrated quarto format, and is replete with several score black-and-white and duotone illustrations including in facsimile. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Previous owner's gift inscription, neatly rendered. Acknowledgments, an Introduction titled "Use, Misuse and the Making of Book Theory, 1500-1700," and then chapters devoted to Technologies of Us, Parts and WHoles, The How-to Book, Dimensional Thinking, and Taking Liberties. xi [1], 124 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine