Reading List

To read

  1. Bell, Bill. (2007). Symposium: what was the history of the book? Introduction. Modern Intellectual History 4(3), 491-494.
  2. Darnton, Robert. (1979). The business of enlightenment: a publishing history of the encyclopedie 1775-1800. Harvard: Harvard University Press.
  3. Darnton, Robert. (1982). What is the history of books? Daedalus 111(3):
    65-83
  4. Dictionnaire encyclopedique du Livre.
  5. Digital Librarian. (2011). Retrieved October 12, from (http://www.digital-librarian.com/bookcollecting.html)
  6. Ding, Choo Ming. (2009). Pengajian di alam Melayu: dari tradisi manuskrip ke maklumat digital. Bangi: ATMA, UKM.
  7. Eco, Umberto. (1983). The Name of the Rose
  8. Eisenstein, Elizabeth. (1979). The Printing Press as an Agent of Change.
  9. Eliot, Simon and Rose, Jonathan. (2009). A companion to the history of the book. Blackwell Publishing. Available online through Wiley Online Library.
  10. Escarpit, Robert. (1958). Sociologie de la Litterature.
  11. Febvre, Lucien and Martin, (1958). The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800.Verso.
  12. Melvin, Katrina. A history of neglect. Retrieved October 12, from (http://vidaweb.org/a-history-of-neglect)
  13. Proudfoot, Ian. (1993). Early Malay printed books: a provisional accounts of materials published in the Singapore-Malaysia area up to 1920, noting holdings in major public collections. Kuala Lumpur: Academy of Malay Studies and The Library, University of Malaya.
  14. Rose, Jonathan. CV with list of publications
  15. SJ, Michael Suarez and Woudhuysen, H. R. (2010). The Oxford Companion to the Book 
  16. Textual studies, bibliography and history of the book.
  17. Greetham, David C. (1992). Textual scholarship: an introduction. Routledge.
  18. National Library of Scotland and The University of Edinburgh. (2011). Exhibiting the written word. Retrieved 28 February 2012, from <?>

Currently reading

  1. Finkelstein, David & McCleery, Alistair (2002). The book history reader. London: Routledge.

Read

  1. Bradbury, Ray. (1953). Fahrenheit 451. 
  2. Rose, Jonathan. (2003). The horizon of a new discipline: inventing book studies. Publishing Research Quarterly 19(1), 11-19. Retrieved from SpringerLink, October 11, 2011.