id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15941 Ryan, Michael The Commonwealth of Books: Essays in Honour of Ian Willison. Ed. Wallace Kirsop. Victoria, Australia: Monash University, Centre for the Book; New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll, 2007. 271p. $70 (ISBN 0732640024). 2008-05-01 2 .pdf application/pdf 1350 61 65 Simon Eliot argues the need for a broader integrating context for book history, one that locates it in a total communications environment and draws on a variety of disciplines and fi elds. Bernhard Fabian, by contrast, wants to rehabilitate the 19th- century notion of “Kulturwissenschaft” and create a new synthetic approach to the artifactual legacies that constitute the foundations of book history. cache/crl-15941.pdf txt/crl-15941.txt