Welcome, dear reader, to a dark tale of endless wo, of deadends and murky fens, of victory and defeat.
Looking down the list of topics, I found the entry "Non-European Printing." With visions of sweeping reference works carrying me conveniently to my destination atop a pile of relevant sources, I set off to the campus library.
What I found there was...less than idyllic. While the library computer catalog provided me with a few hits, its very generality of purpose renders it nearly useless. By the third page of results of one search I was reading about King Louis XIV's history, and "printing" brings up Uinta County: its place in history. Really?
Still, I found a few gems this way. I started off looking for A Short History of the Printing Press without paying mind to the publication year. This was in the section on the 5th floor about printing--which is well picked over at this point. I noticed quite a few titles that were intriguing. First, though, is the book I was looking for:
Looking down the list of topics, I found the entry "Non-European Printing." With visions of sweeping reference works carrying me conveniently to my destination atop a pile of relevant sources, I set off to the campus library.
What I found there was...less than idyllic. While the library computer catalog provided me with a few hits, its very generality of purpose renders it nearly useless. By the third page of results of one search I was reading about King Louis XIV's history, and "printing" brings up Uinta County: its place in history. Really?
Still, I found a few gems this way. I started off looking for A Short History of the Printing Press without paying mind to the publication year. This was in the section on the 5th floor about printing--which is well picked over at this point. I noticed quite a few titles that were intriguing. First, though, is the book I was looking for:
