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Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary - New Directions in Book History Adam Smyth
Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary - New Directions in Book History
Adam Smyth
This rich and varied collection of essays by scholars and interviews with artists approaches the fraught topic of book destruction from a new angle, setting out an alternative history of the cutting, burning, pulping, defacing and tearing of books from the medieval period to our own age.
232 pages, 22 black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 12, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781137367655 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Genre | Interdisciplinary Studies > Medieval (500-1453) Studies |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 146 × 226 × 18 mm · 430 g |
| Editor | Partington, G. |
| Editor | Smyth, A. |