id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16343 Ryan, Michael David McKitterick. Old Books, New Technologies: The Representation, Conservation, and Transformation of Books since 1700. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 286p. (ISBN: 978-1-107-03593-5). LCCN: 2012-38444. 2013-11-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1317 59 52 The history of the transmission and evaluation of old books is itself the record of shifting approaches to these artifacts. The questions that interest McKitterick and drive his narrative involve the ways in which collectors, book sellers, and in- stitutional caretakers conserved, restored, studied, and copied old books during the past three centuries. cache/crl-16343.pdf txt/crl-16343.txt