Thornton's Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences

This book is the standard work on the production, distribution and storage of medical literature from the earliest times. This third edition, edited by Alain Besson, is in keeping with the author's original intention and retains the basic structure of the first two editions. A new team of contributors have each provided chapters on their specialized subject to ensure a wide-ranging but detailed study. The opening chapter 'Medical Books before the Invention of Printing' now focuses on the production and transmission of medical manuscripts in the West, instead of giving a shallow treatment to the entire field of manuscript studies.Besson, Alain is the author of 'Thornton's Medical Books, Libraries and Collectors A Study of Bibliography and the Book Trade in Relation to the Medical Sciences', published 1990 under ISBN 9780566054815 and ISBN 0566054817.