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The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
The Book Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives
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The Book Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.
Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson, the celebrated Arts and Crafts bookbinder, conjure books that flicker between the early twentieth century and the fifteenth. Others have been forgotten. We don't remember Sarah Eaves and her crucial contribution to the history of type. Nor Charles Edward Mudie, populariser of the circulating library and the most influential figure in book publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare's First Folio, and then disappeared from history.
The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes you inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows - from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It is a story of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken.
The Book-Makers is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish.
The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes you inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows - from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It is a story of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken.
The Book-Makers is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish.
- Hardback.
- 352 pages.
- Measures 24 x 15.6 cm.
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