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

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The five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them

“Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —Financial Times

An Economist Book of the Year


Books have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade book-makers who changed the course of history through their experiments in the arts of printing, paper making, type designing, bi...