Editor's Note

Abstract

For much of this century, in one institution or another, there have been courses in printing, papermaking, bookbinding, or book history. Some were individual classes, some were fully developed programs integrating historical and intellectual matters with practical workshop-like offerings.

With European—primarily French—scholarship of the last half of this century, and with concomitant American programs in these disciplines, the field of the History of the Book has developed, with increasing interest, over the last 20 years. The primary materials for the study of this history reside in rare book and manuscript collections, archives, special libraries, and the libraries connected . . .