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Full title: An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients; with a history of the art of bookbinding, from the times of the Greeks and Romans to the present day; interspersed with bibliographical references to men and books of all ages and countries; Hansard, Thomas Curson (1825).
The Soul's Address to the Body (c. 1150–1175) found in Worcester Cathedral Library MS F. 174 contains only one word of possible Latinate origin, while also maintaining a corrupt alliterative meter and Old English grammar and syntax, albeit in a degenerative state (hence, early scholars of Old English termed this late form as "Semi-Saxon ...
The earliest history of Old English lexicography lies in the Anglo-Saxon period itself, when English-speaking scholars created English glosses on Latin texts. At first, these were often marginal or interlinear glosses; however, they soon came to be gathered into word-lists such as the Épinal-Erfurt , Leiden and Corpus Glossaries.
The book in America: a history of the making and selling of books in the United States (2nd ed.). Bowker. Cecil J. McHale (1957), Guide to General Book Publishers in the United States (4th ed.), Ann Arbor, MI {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher "New York Review of Books", The New York Review of Books 2022, ISSN 0028-7504 1963-
Dummy book – an object designed to imitate the appearance of a real book, which may have blank pages or be entirely hollow; E-book or Electronic Book – a book made available in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both readable on electronic devices; Edited volume or collection – a collection of scholarly or scientific chapters ...
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Caslon typefaces quickly became popular among colonial printers in the mid-18th century up to the American Revolution. Books, newspapers and broadsides were mostly printed in Caslon old style types, while many important works were also printed with newer Caslon types, including the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence, by ...