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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

By (author) Adam Smyth

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A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions. * AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 * A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2024 * 'This really is the loveliest of books' I 'I cannot recommend it highly enough' SPECTATOR This is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others weâ€™ve forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and her crucial contribution to the history of type. Nor Charles Edward Mudie, populariser of the circulating library â€“ and the most influential figure in publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeareâ€™s First Folio, then disappeared. The Book-Makers puts people back into the story of the book. It takes us inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows â€“ from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. Itâ€™s a tale of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. This is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish. â€˜Amazing. This book is a soul-expanding celebration of the human spiritâ€™ MARTIN LATHAM, author of The Bookseller's Tale â€˜A brilliant time machine of a bookâ€™ JOSEPH HONE, author of The Book Forger

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