The Look of the BookThe Look of the Book assesses the role of the city of Shiraz in Iranian book production between the early fourteenth and mid fifteenth centuries. It is the first detailed analysis of all aspects of the book illumination, codicology, illustration, calligraphy, and binding during this significant era when the "look of the book" was transformed. Four periods of change are identified: the years following 1340, until the end of Injuid rule in Shiraz; the