THE BOOK-MAKERS de ADAM SMYTH
Ficha técnica
- THE BOOK-MAKERS
- ADAM SMYTH
- Número de páginas: 400
- Idioma: Inglés
- Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2
- ISBN: 9781529932669
- Editorial: Cornerstone
- Año de edición: 2025
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Overview
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 American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin We watch Thomas Cobden Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the early twentieth century and the fifteenth Others have been forgotten We don t remember Sarah Eaves wife of John Baskerville 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 1492 Fleet Street to 2023 New York It s 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 leave
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