The Book-Makers

By Adam Smyth,

Book cover of The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives

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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,…

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