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Text extracted from 1st pages: BOOKS & READERS IN ANCIENT GREECE & ROME by FREDERIC G. KENYON Late Director & Principal Librarian of the British Museum OXFORD AT THE CLARENDON PRESS 1932 PREFACE: "This book is the outcome of a course of three lectures which I was invited by the University of London to deliver at King's College in March 1932. The material has been slightly expanded, but the general scale of treatment has not been altered. It does not claim to replace the standard works on ancient book-production, but to supplement them, & that especially with regard to the period during which papyrus was the principal material in use. It is in respect of this period that our knowledge has increased in the course of the last two generations. The object of this book is to bring together and make available for students the results of these discoveries. In particular, use has been made of the remarkable collection of papyrus codices recently acquired by Mr. A. Chester Beatty, which has greatly extended our knowledge of this transitional form of book, which appears to have had a special vogue among the Christian community in Egypt. Altho the subject of the book is primarily bibliographical, namely, the methods of book construction from the date of Homer (whenever that may have been) until the supersession of papyrus in the fourth century, its main object has been to show the bearings of the material & form of books on literary history & criticism, & to consider what new light has been thrown by recent research on the origin & growth of the habit of reading in ancient Greece & Rome."I. THE USE OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT GREECEII. THE PAPYRUS ROLLIII. BOOKS AND READING AT ROMEIV. VELLUM AND THE CODEXAPPENDIXINDEXILLUSTRATIONS. Title......Page 1 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION......Page 2 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION......Page 3 1. THE USE OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT GREECE......Page 4 2. THE PAPYRUS ROLL......Page 25 3. BOOKS AND READING AT ROME......Page 46 4. VELLUM AND THE CODEX......Page 53 APPENDIX: ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES FROM LATIN AUTHORS......Page 72 INDEX......Page 79 Title 1 PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION 2 PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION 3 CONTENTS 4 1. THE USE OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT GREECE 4 2. THE PAPYRUS ROLL 25 3. BOOKS AND READING AT ROME 46 4. VELLUM AND THE CODEX 53 APPENDIX: ILLUSTRATIVE PASSAGES FROM LATIN AUTHORS 72 INDEX 79