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THE BOOK-MAKERS

THE BOOK-MAKERS

A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN EIGHTEEN LIVES

ADAM SMYTH

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BASIC BOOKS
Año de edición:
2024
ISBN:
978-1-5416-0564-0
Páginas:
400
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"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"-

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