Petroski 1999

Petroski, Henry. The Book on the Bookshelf. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

1853: Charles Goodyear had a book printed on rubber sheets and bound in rubber (19)

carrels within chain libraries like computer terminals -- books pushed out to make space (75)

armaria came to be known as "book presses" -- "bookcase" and "press" became interchangeable (86); like bookbinder's press or letter press

fore-edge paintings: "16th-century Italian book collector, Odorico Pillone, had the artist Cesare Vecellio paint the fore-edges of his books with scenes appropriate to their contents" (119-120); 172 books were decorated, two painted upside-down; lettered over with literary identifiers,