id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15756 Ryan, Michael The Future of the Page. Ed. Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Pr. (Studies in Book and Print Culture), 2004. 272p. cloth $65 (ISBN 0802088023); paper $29.95 (ISBN 0802085849). LC: 2005-391277 2005-09-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1314 69 61 The editors state in their introduction that the contributors of essays “explore the underside of the book trade, revealing the ways in which laws and regulations relating to books have been exploited and manipulated, or evaded and broken, over many centuries.” Christopher de Hamel’s “Book Thefts in the Middle Ages” cites examples of me- dieval book thefts and the measures taken by book owners and monastic librarians to protect their literary property, includ- ing curses or anathemas on the person or persons who would steal their books. cache/crl-15756.pdf txt/crl-15756.txt