The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives -- Adam Smyth, Hardcover
An Economist Book of the Year A five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them. "Almost every page--almost every paragraph--fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest." --Wall Street Journal Books have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade book-makers who changed the course of history through their experiments in the arts of printing, paper making, type designing, binding, advertising, and selling? The Book-Makers offers a new way to understand the story of Western culture's most important object through a series of dynamic portraits of eighteen men and women who helped to define the book. From Wynkyn de Worde's cheap bestsellers produced in fifteenth-century London, to Nancy Cunard's avant-garde pamphlets made on her small press in Normandy; from Benjamin Franklin's inky entrepreneurialism, to the radical culture of contemporary zines, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in.
Author: Adam Smyth
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 5/28/2024
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0 lbs
Size: 0" H x 0" L x 0" W
ISBN: 9781541605640
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