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Book

medium for a collection of words and/or pictures to represent knowledge or a fictional story, often manifested in bound paper and ink, or in e-books
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Afrikaans: Boek
Brezhoneg: Levrioù
Català: Llibres
Čeština: Knihy
Deutsch: Bücher
Dolnoserbski: Knigły
English: A book is a set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side. A single sheet within a book is called a leaf, and each side of a leaf is called a page.
Esperanto: Libroj
Español: Libros
فارسی: کتاب
العربية: كتاب
Suomi: Kirjat
Français : Livres
Hrvatski: Knjige
Magyar: Könyvek
עברית: ספרים
Hornjoserbsce: Knihi
Bahasa Indonesia: Buku
Íslenska: bækur°
Íslenska: Bók
Italiano: Libri
日本語: 本
ქართული: წიგნები
한국어: 책
Latviešu: Grāmata
ਪੰਜਾਬੀ: ਕਿਤਾਬ
Polski: Książki
Português: Livros
Română: Carte
Русский: Книги
SiSwati: Tíncwâdzi
Türkçe: Kitap
Українська: Книга
Tiếng Việt: Sách
Volapük: Buks
বাংলা: বই

Early booksEdit

  • Romance Papyrus (2nd century)

  • Heracles Papyrus (3rd century)

  • Vergilius Augusteus (4th century)

  • Vatican Vergil (5th century)

  • Codex Argentus (6th century)

  • Book of Durrow (7th century)

  • Lindisfarne Gospels (8th century)

  • Lombard book, Switzerland (9th-10th century)

  • Byzantine book (created prior to 1085)

  • La Chanson de Roland (1098)

  • Page from Yingzao Fashi (Song dynasty printing, 1145)

  • Page from a 12th century edition of the Tale of Genji

  • Illustration from De Balneis Puteolanis (1220)

  • Parchment scroll (13th century)

  • Gesta Danorum parchment page (13th century)

  • page from the Wigalois (1220-1230)

  • Codex Runicus (ca 1300)

  • Sachsenspiegel (1385)

  • Treasure binding (1339)

  • Jikji page (1397)

  • Kiev Psalter (1397)

  • page from Dante's Inferno (ca 1350-1410)

  • Reims gospel (14th century)

  • Tarikhnama (early 14th century)

  • page from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry (ca 1412-1416)

  • Canterbury Tales (manuscript, early 15th century)

  • Canterbury Tales, (printed book, 1477)

  • Kitab Ash-shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa (the Ash-Shifa) (15th century edition)

  • page from The House of Phristinus by Simon Marmion (1475)

  • Profits champetres (1485)

Historic booksEdit

  • Shrine of the Book, housing the Dead Sea Scrolls

  • Gutenberg Bible

  • Till Eulenspiegel, early popular fiction character (1519)

  • Augsburg Confession (1531)

  • King James Bible (1611)

  • Shakespeare's works (First Folio) (1623)

  • Isaac Newton's Principia

  • Thomas Hobbe's Leviathan (1651)

  • John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

  • Encyclopædia Britannica (early edition)

  • Diccionario de la lengua española (1780)

  • Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1790)

  • Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

  • Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto (1848)

  • Charles Darwin's Origin of Species

  • Abraham Lincoln inaugural bible

  • Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871)

  • Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace (third edition, 1873)

  • Lewis Carroll's Alices Adventures in Wonderland

  • The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)

  • Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  • The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903)

  • Neue Gedichte, Rainer Maria Rilke (1907)

  • The Wind in the Willows (1913, first printing 1908)

  • Gitanjali, Rabindranath Tagore (1912)

  • Death in Venice, Thomas Mann (1913)

  • the Little Red Songbook (1919)

  • Ulysses, James Joyce (1922)

  • The Trial, Franz Kafka (1925)

  • Mein Kampf (1925), in a US World War II poster

  • Das Schloß (The Castle), Franz Kafka (1926)

  • The Hobbit (1937)

  • Darkness at Noon (1940-1941)

  • Warren Commission report (1964)

  • Mao Zedong's Quotations (ca 1960s)

  • The Whole Earth Catalog (1969)

Book cover illustrationEdit

Book designEdit

  • Marbled end papers

  • End papers (front) (1896)

  • Book frontispiece (ca 1646)

  • Half title (1877)

  • Title page (1852)

  • Title page with epigraph (1829)

  • Copyright page (1899)

  • Dedication page (1494)

  • Foreword (1900)

  • Introduction (1921)

  • Preface (1895)

  • Opening page (1890s)

  • Carpet page (9th century)

  • decorative epigraph

  • Multiple editions of Frankenstein

  • ex libris

  • Historiated initial

  • Rubrics (red letters)

  • Decorated Incipit

Book businessEdit

  • Early notice for the Frankfurt Book Fair (1573)

  • Frankfurt Book Fair (2008)

  • Frontispiece from The Library, by Andrew Lang (about books) (1881)

  • poster advertising books by L. Frank Baum

  • Bookshop (1820)

  • Bookseller, Germany

  • Book stalls, Paris

  • Book signing by author

  • Book signing by author

  • literary award

  • Book department, Selfridge's, London (1942)

  • City Lights Books, San Francisco

Books in artEdit

Unusual booksEdit

  • Codex Leicester, Leonard Da Vinci

  • Jack Warner's address book

  • Limits to bookbinding

  • Summit register

  • Bamboo slip book, China (18th century)

  • Friedrich Kellner diary

Featured picturesEdit

  • From a 15th century Egyptian manuscript

  • From Cosmographia (1568)

  • From Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660)

  • From Cyclopaedia (1728)

  • Page from "Descripción histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras que con ocasión del nuevo empedrado que se está formando en la plaza principal de México, se hallaron en ella el año de 1790", Antonio de Leon y Gama (1792)

  • From a 1798 book by John Gabriel Stedman

  • From Anatomy of the Human Body (1804)

  • From an illuminated Persian manuscript (1808)

  • From Gustave Doré's illustrated edition of the Bible

  • Study drawing of the allegorical figure of Romance, taken from the Library of Congress' Jefferson Building, by Kenyon Cox

  • From Kunstformen der Natur (1904)

  • From Naturgeschichte der Vögel Mitteleuropas (ca 1905 or earlier)

  • From Puck of Pook's Hill (1906)

See alsoEdit

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