Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century
- ISBN-10
- 0712347968
- ISBN-13
- 9780712347969
- Pages
- 208
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oak Knoll Press
- Authors
- Michael Harris, British Library, Robin Myers
Description
This collection of essays focuses on two specific areas: the men and women who earned a living in the production and distribution of books and serials; and how biographies of a widening range of individuals became one of the staples of the business of publishing. The contributors show the development of biography as a published genre from medieval accounts of saints to 17th-century collectors as national worthies, through to the present-day production of the multi-volume DNB (Dictionary of National Biography).
