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Clay is a 2005 children's/young adult novel by David Almond.It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and longlisted for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. [1]The story, told in first-person, is about two boys, Davie and Stephen, who can make clay come to life.
Wood remained for sixty years at St. John's, serving as both President (1802–1815) and Master (1815–1839); on his death in 1839 he was interred in the college chapel and bequeathed his extensive library to the college, comprising almost 4,500 printed books on classics, history, mathematics, theology and travel, dating from the 17th to the ...
James Wood was born in Durham, England, to Dennis William Wood (born 1928), a Dagenham-born minister and professor of zoology at Durham University, and Sheila Graham Wood, née Lillia, a schoolteacher from Scotland. [3] [1] Wood was raised in Durham in an evangelical wing of the Church of England, an environment he describes as austere and ...
A stereotype mold ("flong") being made Stereotype casting room of the Seattle Daily Times, c. 1900. In printing, a stereotype, [note 1] stereoplate or simply a stereo, is a solid plate of type metal, cast from a papier-mâché or plaster mould taken from the surface of a forme of type.
The perils of print culture: book, print and publishing history in theory and practice. Palgrave Macmillan. Price, Leah (2012). How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691114170. Raven, James (2018). What is the History of the Book?. Cambridge: Polity Press. ISBN 978-0-7456-4161-4.
The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain is a seven-volume series on the history of texts in the United Kingdom. It was published between 1999 and 2019 by Cambridge University Press . Bibliography
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images. Modern books are typically in codex format, composed of many pages that are bound together and protected by a cover; they were preceded by several earlier formats, including the scroll and the tablet.
Block books are short books, 50 or fewer leaves, that were printed in the second half of the 15th century from wood blocks in which the text and illustrations were both cut. Some block books, called chiro-xylographic (from the Greek cheir (χειρ) "hand") contain only the printed illustrations, with the text added by hand. Some books also ...