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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

Smyth, Adam

Hardcover

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismGeneral European History

Publisher Price: $32.00

ISBN10: 1541605640
ISBN13: 9781541605640
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
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.

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