Blind Impressions: Methods and Mythologies in Book History - Joseph A. Dane - Google Books

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"As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for…