Streszczenie
The article is an attempt to summarize Jan Muszkowski’s achievements in the book studies as a cultural phenomenon and a subject of university studies. The book system, according to J. Muszkowski’s theory, is a subject of continuous crystallization, self-improvement and re-evaluation, resulting from technical and social achievements. The model of publication production and consumption, based on a positivists scientific paradigms, made the bibliology an equal discipline of social sciences. The dynamics of phenomena described by the term ,,culture of the book”, its evolutionary laws and functioning are an important contribution to determine the status of the book science.