This book is in one sense about the communities that contribute to the
making of books, a fact no less true for my own book. Its completion would
not have been possible without the generous and patient assistance of numerous
librarians, too numerous in fact to name here, who have taught me
that without human knowledge, technological knowledge is, quite literally,
a mess. I have been amply aided by individuals at the following institutions:
the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the McGill University
Library, the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University,
the Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of the New York Public Library, the
Pierpont Morgan Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
of Yale University, the American Antiquarian Society, the Herzogin Anna
Amalia Bibliothek and the Goethe- und Schiller- Archiv in Weimar, the
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
Göttingen, and the Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble. It
was Terry Belanger and my teachers of descriptive bibliography at the Rare
Book School at the University of Virginia who taught me how to understand
what a book is. more
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