The book-makers : a history of the book in eighteen remarkable lives
Smyth, Adam, 1972-2024
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A celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 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.
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London : The Bodley Head, 2024.London : The Bodley Head, 2024.
Collation:
xiv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781847926296 (hbk)
Dewey class:
002.09
Language:
English
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BRN:
2897463