id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-16158 Dickey, Timothy J. Andrew Pettegree. The Book in the Renaissance. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2010. 421p. $40.00 (ISBN 9780300110098). LC2009-026513. 2011-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1239 58 59 Pettegree in his concluding “Note on Sources” notes that the foundations of book history in the writings of Lucien Febvre and Elizabeth Eisenstein had been rooted in the most prominent library col- lections, which naturally represent the printed works that have been most valued and received the greatest custodial care. The Book in the Renaissance is an out- come of long work by a team at the University of St. Andrews, synthesiz- ing the wide variety of Web-based data now available with a wealth of more traditional scholarship in book history; it is a herald of the information that will soon be available in the Universal Short Title Catalogue. cache/crl-16158.pdf txt/crl-16158.txt