The book-makers: a history of the book in eighteen remarkable lives

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Smyth, Adam, 1972-
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English
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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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