A History of the Book in America: Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840-1880 Erste Ausgabe Edition

"Admirable. . . . Bears reading for new approaches to understanding how print culture affected the lives of Americans in a myriad of social settings and occupations." -- Printing History

"Generously illustrated, and numerous tables and graphs make statistically dense chapters accessible. . . . Recommend[ed] without hesitation." -- Resources for American Literary Study

"Provides superb expositions of current scholarship on the history of the book. . . . Places the handsome, often gold-stamped, book-product front and center in a larger print universe operating in many sites. . . . [A] wonderfully rich complexity." -- Journal of American History

"Succeeds both as a reference work and as a status report on the field's scholarship. . . . Relevant and lucidly written." -- Technology and Culture

"The depth found in the work edited by Casper, Groves, Nissenbaum, and Winship stands alone in currently available scholarship." -- American Reference Books Annual

"What the History of the Book series shows so clearly is that the world we know, the communities to which we already belong, are reified and reinforced by books. Such is the incredible and incredibly flexible power of this primitive technology. Behold the book: It is limited but perfect." -- Humanities magazine

Jeffrey D. Groves is professor of literature at Harvey Mudd College and coeditor, with Scott Casper and Joanne D. Chaison, of Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary.

Michael Winship is Howard Regents Professor of English II at the University of Texas at Austin and author of American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields.

David D. Hall is professor of American religious history at Harvard Divinity School, USA.