ENCYKLOPEDIA wiedzy o książce. Wrocław 1971. ossolineum

Title: Encyclopedia of book knowledge

• Place of issue: Wrocław
• Year of publication: 1971
• Publisher: Zaklad Narodowy im. Ossolińskich
• Number of pages: XXII, pp. 2876
• Illustrations, maps: 56 [including 8 in color] plates.
• Size: 25.5 cm
• Binding: hard cloth
• Condition: slight soiling of binding

Description:

The most comprehensive publication in the literature of the subject in Polish. It contains about 6000 factual, biographical, geographical, topographical and cross-reference entries. Covers the totality of modern knowledge in all fields concerning the book as a manuscript and printing work of art and an object of reading, collecting and trade. It provides information in the following fields: the history of writing, the history of manuscript and printed books, illumination and book illustration, the history of bindings and bookbinding, papermaking, printing, bookselling, the history of libraries, librarianship and library science, bibliophilism, bibliography, documentation, publishing issues and periodicals, illustration, the history of bindings. Also included are some related sciences, such as archival science, chronology, diplomatics, historical geography, etc. In general, the issues of EWoK concern world book studies with special emphasis on Polish affairs.