The Uses of Quantification

A Companion to the History of the Book

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 33-49

  Weedon, Alexis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Book selling; Book trade; Library; Printing; Publishing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855499613     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690949.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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