Introduction -- A new model for the study of the book -- The commercial production of manuscript books in late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth-century Paris -- The codex in the fifteenth century : manuscript and print -- American papermakers and the panic of 1819 -- Bookbinding and the history of books -- The "trade of authorship" in eighteenth-century Britain -- Mount and Page : publishers of eighteenth-century maritime books -- Libraries and the mind of man -- Appendix -- Index.