EN[...] In the Modern and Postmodern period, the appearance of the hand-written book is most frequently determined by the personal motives of the creator of such a book, someone’s individual needs, or the striving for the appearance of a new and different type of a book. The change in the book as a phenomenon is closely related to political and social conditions of an actual local culture. The aggravation of these conditions (war, occupation, the application of a repressive apparatus, censorship, various bans and the like) often lead to the emergence of new and extraordinary cultural phenomena. This paper discusses one phenomenon of this type that so far has not been looked into, and that is the Lithuanian handwritten book intended for personal use during the period of the ban on the Lithuanian press from 1864 to 1904. [...]. [Extract, p. 57]