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By David McKitterick

As we depend more and more on electronic assets, and libraries discard huge components in their older collections, what's our accountability to maintain 'old books' for the longer term? David McKitterick's vigorous and wide-ranging examine explores how outdated books were represented and interpreted from the eighteenth century to the current day. Conservation of those texts has taken many varieties, from early equipment of counterfeiting, imitation and rebinding to trendy practices of microfilming, digitisation and images. utilizing a complete variety of examples, McKitterick finds those practices and their results to deal with wider questions surrounding the price of revealed books, either by way of their content material and their prestige as ancient gadgets. making a hyperlink among historic ways and the applied sciences of the long run, this booklet furthers our figuring out of previous books and their importance in an international of rising electronic technology.

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