Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Book History Diagrams

Many scholars have attempted to make graphic representations of the socio-economic "workings" of print culture. Darnton's and Adams & Barker's are two classic examples of the genre. However, an image search for "book history diagrams" on Google, brings to the front graphic representations from students in previous incarnations of this Corcoran seminar. Cheers to Camden (Figure 8), Lynette (Tornado), and Di (Brain):  Book History Diagrams

You'll be making your own diagram in class on October 17 that illuminates some aspect of book history (broadly understood). It's likely your diagram will look more like the ones above than the classics below. The Darnton and Adams & Barker diagrams are frequently reprinted, but I've never seen the typescript ones by James Raven before. They came to me unattributed, so I'm not sure if they were ever published (or if they are, in fact, by James Raven).


Robert Darnton 



Adams & Barker


James Raven 1600


James Raven 1700




James Raven 1800


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  1. Rare Book School18 January, 2017

    The Raven diagrams are taken from: 'Book distribution networks in early modern Europe: the case of the western fringe (La rete distributiva del libro), Produzione e commercio della carta e del libro secc. XIII-XVIII', Istituto Internazionale de Storia Economica F.Datini Prato, vol. 23 (1991): 583-630.

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