Bookmakers, The - The story of the book in 18 remarkable lives
The Book-Makers is a celebration ofthe printed book, from the latefifteenth century to the early twenty-first, told through the lives ofeighteenth...
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The Book-Makers is a celebration ofthe printed book, from the latefifteenth century to the early twenty-first, told through the lives ofeighteenth extraordinary men andwomen who made the book as weknow it - printers and typesetters,publishers and illustrators, paper-makers and library founders, as wellas eccentrics and artists whocontinued to re-invent it. Some ofthese names are familiar. We meet thejobbing printer Benjamin Franklinwho preferred to produce popularalmanacs to canonical literature. Wewitness how William Morris madebooks as if they were medievalmanuscripts, even though that age hadlong passed. And we encounter thesocialite Nancy Cunard, running asmall press
Autor@: Smyth, Adam
ISBN: 978-1-84792-629-6
Idioma: Inglés
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