{"product_id":"the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives-9781541609167","title":"The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEconomist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Almost every page--almost every paragraph--fizzes with facts, allusions, speculations, tidbits of etymology and gems of historical interest.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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, binding, advertising, and selling? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way to understand the story of Western culture's most important object through a series of dynamic portraits of eighteen men and women who helped to define the book. From Wynkyn de Worde's cheap bestsellers produced in fifteenth-century London, to Nancy Cunard's avant-garde pamphlets made on her small press in Normandy; from Benjamin Franklin's inky entrepreneurialism, to the radical culture of contemporary zines, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541609167\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Adam Smyth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53195225006261,"sku":"9781541609167","price":18.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781541609167.jpg?v=1788273487","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-book-makers-a-history-of-the-book-in-eighteen-lives-9781541609167","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}