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The Book Before PrintingAncient, Medieval and Oriental
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David Diringer

"A remarkable work. . . . For sheer weight of information there is no equal to it."  The Spectator. It is probable that the earliest "books" were written on wood or leaves as early as the fourth millennium B.C. These fragile materials, unfortunately, have not come down to us. In their absence, the earliest surviving books are the clay tablets of Mesopotamia, the oldest attributed to c. 350…

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9780486142494
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1 online resource (624 pages)
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