Bibliologia. 1. 2006. An International Journal of Bibliography, Library Science, History of Typography and the Book

The book, in its double nature as a physical object and a textual content, although challenged by increasingly wide-spread and effective communication tools, has never disappeared as it had been divined by some easy prophets of doom. The focus of Bibliology remains the book, in its physical form, that - from one metamorphosis to the next - extends from the papyrus of the scroll and from the parchment of the codices to the bits of the e-book. The bibliologists' attention has so far been focussed more upon ancient printed books, hand pressed in the first three centuries after the invention, leaving on one side the industrial, although still fully typographical, book produced in the last two centuries. Today, the introduction of new digital procedures in typesetting and printing processes seems bound to place in a by now accomplished and fully defined time the entire rise and fall of the printed book, from Gutenberg to the late twentieth century, thus providing more overt continuity, within these boundaries, to bibliological investigation which should be extended later on to ancient manuscript roots and computer-age books.
It is with these objects and in accordance with these beliefs that «Bibliologia. An International Journal of Bibliography, Library Science, History of Typography and the Book» is setting.