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The Book-MakersThe Book-Makers
The Book-Makers

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The Book-Makers

The Book-Makers

ID: 9781847926296
The Book-Makers  The Book-Makers
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Year of publication: 2024

Number of pages: 400

ISBN: 9781847926296

Publisher: Penguin Random House

Cover: Paperback

Format: 242 x 163 mm

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From printers and binders to typographers and librarians, Smyth's endlessly fascinating volume recounts the story of the book through eighteen visionary and highly influential figures.

This is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders.

Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others we’ve forgotten. We don't recall 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 publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare’s First Folio, then disappeared.

The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes us inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows – from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It’s a tale of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. This is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish.

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  • The Author Adam Smyth
  • Publisher Penguin Random House
  • Language English
  • Number Of Pages 400
  • Format 242 x 163 მმ
  • Cover Paperback
  • Year Of Publication 2024
  • Original Language English
  • Direction History

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