The concept and definition of regional book (an example of Samogitian book)

The Samogitian ethnic book, witten in its peculiar dialect, is recognized as a quite independent and at the same time integral part of Samogitian book. Samogitian book, which had its upspring late in the 17th century, had very strong positions in the culture of Great Lithuania in the 19th century due to the Lituanistic movement. It decreased in the period of generating Lithuanian appellative language, although cultured Samogitians had been recovering it during all the first part of the 20th century. The Samogitian book underwent the patterns that are common and appropriate only for this region and which influenced the complicated situation of publishing and the general state of book culture. Referring to this concept of regional book, the Samogitian book is conceived as a consistent part of the Great Lithuania’s book history