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The Footnote: A Curious History
by Anthony Grafton
ISBN: 0674307607
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slvv
· 2015-01-03 ·
Original thread
Erik Kwakkel is awesome. For more on the history of footnotes, check out Anthony Grafton's The Footnote: A Curious History (
http://www.amazon.com/The-Footnote-A-Curious-History/dp/0674...
) There's also Chuck Zerby's book, The Devil's in the Details.