Replacement for My Malacañang / by Raul S. Gonzales with accession number 106958

"Some essays in this collection are modified, revised, or abridged versions of previously published or presented papers: "An old rare, illuminated book from Manila" was based on "The Farming of the Natives in the Boxer Codex." which was published in Philippine Humanities Review 4 (2000): 205-15. "Perish or self-publish" originally appeared as "Money, Vanity, Neccessity: Self-publishing in Philippine Literature" in The University of the Philippines Forum 8 (July-August 2007), 6-7. "Copy that: Text publishing (and photocopying) in the Philippines," which was presented at the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) 2008 conference in Oxford, England on June 25, 2008. The original version of "The book of the past, the future of the book" was presented at The Future of the Book: The Philippines' First Digital Publishing Conference on September 14, 2010 at the UP-Ayala Technohub in Quezon City." -- Verso of title page

"A sixteenth-century illuminated manuscript made in Manila, the first printers and publishers of the Philippines, the looting of the Augustinian library by the British, the clandestine activities of the Katipunan press, the successes and failures of Filipino novelists and many more stories about Philippine printing and publishing. They're all here in this little book that speaks volumes about books. Story Book takes you on a lively journey through the colorful pages of the history of the book in the Philippines. - Provided by publisher.

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