Index, A review of

“Like writing and the printed book, indexes created excitement as well as anxiety, just as digital aids do now”: from Anthony Grafton’s review of Dennis Duncan’s Index, A History of the.

More about Index, A History of the on the publisher’s page. The book arrives in the States next February.

Thanks to Gunther at Lexikaliker for letting me know about this book.

[My favorite index: that of Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. Gunther tells me it’s mentioned in Duncan's book.]