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Book Studies: Reference sources

Beginning in 2009-2010, Colorado College offers a thematic minor in The Book (the past, present, and future of the written word in its material form).

Reference sources

If you’re not sure where to begin, or need some general information on a Book Studies topic, these sources at Tutt Library might help:

The Oxford Companion to the Book (2010), Reference Z4 .O946 2010

A Companion to the History of the Book (Blackwell, 2007), Garden Level Z4 .C73 2007

Glaister’s Encyclopedia of the Book (1960), Special Collections Office Z118.G55

Glaister’s Glossary of the Book (1979), Reference Z118 .G55 1979

Tebbel’s A History of Book Publishing in the United States (1981), Special Collections Office Z473 .T42

The History of the Book in America (2010)
Volume 1: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World, Garden Level Z473 .C686 2010
Volume 2: An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840, Garden Level Z473 .E98 2010
Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880, Garden Level Z473 .I53 2007 
Volume 4: Print in Motion: The Expansion of Publishing and Reading in the United States, 1880-1940, Garden Level Z473 .P75 2009
Volume 5: The Enduring Book : Print Culture in Postwar America, Garden Level Z473 .E53 2009 

 

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