Adam Smyth: The Book-Makers | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781529932669 | The Book-Makers | A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives | Smyth

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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 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 leaves ink on your fingers, and it shows why the printed book will continual to flourish.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Fachbereich:	Verlagswesen
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	XVI 384 S.
ISBN-13:	9781529932669
ISBN-10:	1529932661
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Smyth, Adam
Hersteller:	Random House UK Ltd Vintage Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	197 x 129 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Adam Smyth
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.04.2025
Gewicht:	0,329 kg

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