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001			on1432562313
003			OCoLC
005			20240617143518.0
008			230806s2024 nyuaf e b 001 0ceng d
010			_a 2023951481
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020			_a1541605640
020			_a9781541605640 _qhardcover
035			_a(OCoLC)1432562313
092			_a686.2092 _bS667
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aSmyth, Adam, _d1972- _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe book-makers : _ba history of the book in eighteen lives / _cAdam Smyth.
246	3		_aBookmakers
246	3		_aHistory of the book in 18 remarkable lives
250			_aFirst US hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBasic Books, _c2024.
300			_axiv, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_a"Originally published in 2024 by The Bodley Head in Great Britain" -- title page verso.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 342-352) and index.
520			_a"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 1942 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 continue to flourish" -- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Books tell all kinds of stories--romances, tragedies, comedies--but if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book-Makers offers a new way into the story of Western culture's most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind by enabling authors to create, document, and entertain. Yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence and of those who first experimented in the art of printing, design, and binding. Who were the renegade book-makers who changed the course of history? From Wynkyn de Worde's printing of fifteenth-century bestsellers to Nancy Cunard's avant-garde pamphlets produced on her small press in Normandy, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in."--Amazon.
650		0	_aPrinters _vBiography.
650		0	_aBook industries and trade _xHistory.
650		0	_aBookbinding _xHistory.
650		0	_aPublishers and publishing _vBiography. _9272670
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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