Adams and Barker 1993 - Revision history

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	** comes to rest without any use (in danger of disappearing);		** comes to rest without any use (in danger of disappearing);
	** book becomes desirable as an object (for text or in its own right)		** book becomes desirable as an object (for text or in its own right)

			"What we offer is a map." (39)

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	'''survival''':		'''survival''':
	* three stages: creation and initial reception; comes to rest without any use (in danger of disappearing); book becomes desirable as an object (for text or in its own right)		* three stages:
			** creation and initial reception (determined by physical form, size, subsequent popularity);
			** comes to rest without any use (in danger of disappearing);
			** book becomes desirable as an object (for text or in its own right)

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	* physical look and feel of the book carries evidence of provenance; "deserves more attention as an aspect of the impact of printing" (20)		* physical look and feel of the book carries evidence of provenance; "deserves more attention as an aspect of the impact of printing" (20)
	* binding: structure and appearance (20); progressive decline in durability of both		* binding: structure and appearance (20); progressive decline in durability of both
			* "Throughout the whole manufacturing process the historian must take into account the essential ingredient that made it all happen, labour, particularly the place and function of labour in a new technology." (21)

			'''distribution''':
			* begins the book's "dynamic phase" (22)
			* four elements: initial impetus, consequent moving of books, destination (intentional, unintentional), momentum
			* immediately after publishing, but also secondhand markets and how books survived to today
			* various reasons to desire to own a book

			'''reception''':
			* initially "passive" and "mute" (27)
			* evidence: direct documentation (published and private responses), popularity (reprintings, sales), influence, use (27)
			* book authors and manufacturers can't control its use (29)
			* literacy rates; what is reading? (30)

			'''survival''':
			* three stages: creation and initial reception; comes to rest without any use (in danger of disappearing); book becomes desirable as an object (for text or in its own right)

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	term "book" doesn't include broadsides, ephemera, etc.; Adams and Baker propose '''"bibliographical document"''' (13) -- limit is if "the agent's intention involves the process of duplication" (13)		term "book" doesn't include broadsides, ephemera, etc.; Adams and Baker propose '''"bibliographical document"''' (13) -- limit is if "the agent's intention involves the process of duplication" (13)

			'''new model''':
			* still a circle of connected elements influenced by elements in the center
			* but elements inverted
			* indirect forces outside, exerting pressure
			* five events in the life of a book: ''publishing, manufacturing, distribution, reception, survival''

			'''publishing''':
			* four parties: author, patron/financier, manufacturer, distributor
			* four headings: creation, communication, profit, preservation
			* "The decision to publish, not the creation of a text, is, then, the first step in the creation of a book." (18); often influenced heavily by factors not intrinsic to the text

			'''manufacturing''':
			* how to include the printing press in a more general history of technology? (18-9)
			* manufacture of illustrations, graphics? (19)
			* manufacture of paper, ink? (19)
			* physical look and feel of the book carries evidence of provenance; "deserves more attention as an aspect of the impact of printing" (20)
			* binding: structure and appearance (20); progressive decline in durability of both

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	:"The power of books is not just what strikes the eye, but what may be latent, to be disclosed in the future." (9)		:"The power of books is not just what strikes the eye, but what may be latent, to be disclosed in the future." (9)
	* "latent power is vastly magnified by the multiplicity of copies" (9)		* "latent power is vastly magnified by the multiplicity of copies" (9)

			bibliographers often too content "to dig their own small patch"; social historians can add much (10)

			'''criticisms of Darnton's communication circuit''':
			* term "publisher" is anachronistic
			* shipper (simply providing a service as he would for any other commodity) not as important as more general lines of communication
			* most importantly, ''deals with people rather than books'' (12); focuses on history of communication
			* "it ignores the sheer randomness, the speculative uncertainty of the book trade." (12)

			term "book" doesn't include broadsides, ephemera, etc.; Adams and Baker propose '''"bibliographical document"''' (13) -- limit is if "the agent's intention involves the process of duplication" (13)

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Adams, Thomas R. and Nicolas Barker. "A New Model for the Study of the Book." ''A Potencie of Life: Books in Society.'' Ed. Nicolas Barker. London: British Library, 1993. 5-43.

Martin, Febvre, ''The coming of the book'' -- began tradition of "the history of the book"

Eisenstein presented a critique of history with ''Printing Press'' -- social revolutions caused by printing press, rather than other way around; Darnton, too, focusing on Enlightenment

the bibliographer is thus "unexpectedly dragged into the limelight by academic historians" (6)

bibliography used to occupy same position as archaeology; but now seems doomed always to be a handmiden to other disciplines

quintessentially interdisciplinary

:"The power of books is not just what strikes the eye, but what may be latent, to be disclosed in the future." (9)
* "latent power is vastly magnified by the multiplicity of copies" (9)