An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients

With a History of the Art of Bookbinding, from the Times of the Greeks and Romans to the Present Day

af John Hannett

First published in 1837, Hannett's Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients is a small but comprehensive physical history of the book as object. He outlines the forms which books took over the centuries, but concentrates on the craft of bookbinding, past and present.