New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2019. This is a bold and imaginative intervention in the fast growing field of book history: it pulls the book apart. Over 22 chapters, it tells the story of the components of the book: from title pages to endleaves; from dust jackets to indexes - and just about everything in between. This book covers a broad historical range that runs from the pre-print era to the digital, bringing together the expertise of some of the most exciting scholars working on book history today in order to shine a new light on these elements hiding in plain sight in the books we all read.