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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives
a history of the book in eighteen lives
Adam Smyth
2023 · Hardcover · Basic Books · 400 pp
First edition · ISBN 9781541605640 · English · LC Z152.B6 .H6 1971
Hardcover
"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"--