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- Three-volume novelEdinburgh publisher Archibald Constable began producing three-volume novels in the early 1800s. He made a success of publishing expensive editions of Walter…
- Illuminated manuscriptThe earliest surviving illuminated manuscripts date from between 400 and 600 CE. These fragile documents emerged during late antiquity as the world…
- Book sizeIn the year 1820, a printer in London folded a full sheet of paper once to create two leaves. This single fold defined what bibliographers call a folio.
- NovelizationThe year 1915 marked the first known novelization of a silent film when publishers released an adaptation of Les Vampires.