Dreaming in Books - uncopy

PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK HAS BEEN AIDED BY A GRANT FROM THE BEVINGTON FUND.
Andrew Piper is assistant professor of German studies and an associate member of
the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 2009 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 2009
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66972-4 (cloth)
ISBN-10: 0-226-66972-6 (cloth)
Dedication page illustration: detail from the title page of Honoré de Balzac’s
La Peau de Chagrin, vol. 1 (1831). Courtesy of The Pierpont Morgan Library,
New York.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Piper, Andrew, 1973–
Dreaming in Books : the making of the bibliographic imagination in the
Romantic age / Andrew Piper.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-66972-4 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 0-226-66972-6 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Literature publishing —Europe—
History—19th century. 2. Literature publishing—Germany—History—19th century.
3. Books—Europe—History—19th century. 4. Books—Germany—History—19th
century. 5. Romanticism—History and criticism. 6. Communication—History—
19th century. I. Title.
Z286 .L58P57 2009
070.5094'09034—dc22 2009006780
o The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for
Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.