The Book-Makers ? Adam Smyth ? Signed First Edition, First Printing ? Bodley Head, London (2024)

Smyth, Adam

ISBN 10: 1847926290 / ISBN 13: 9781847926296

Edité par The Bodley Head, London, 2024

First edition, first printing, signed by the author, offered here in brand-new, unopened condition in the publisher?s original hardcover binding with dust jacket. Received directly from the publisher and never read or handled beyond careful inspection. Binding is sound and square; pages are pristine, clean, and unmarked throughout. Dust jacket is fresh and unworn, with no tears, chips, creasing, or edge wear.

A signed, new-condition example of this acclaimed modern work on book history and the lives behind the making of books, well suited to collectors of signed modern first editions and titles relating to the book trade.

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Synopsis :

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 20^th and 15^th centuries. Others we’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 – and the most influential figure in publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare’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 – from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It’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.

‘Amazing. This book is a soul-expanding celebration of the human spirit’ MARTIN LATHAM, author of The Bookseller's Tale

‘A brilliant time machine of a book’ JOSEPH HONE, author of The Book Forger

À propos de l?auteur: Adam Smyth runs the 39 Step Press, an experiment in printing, from a cold barn in Oxfordshire. He is also Professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, University of Oxford.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Book-Makers ? Adam Smyth ? Signed First ...
Éditeur : The Bodley Head, London
Date d'édition : 2024
Reliure : Couverture rigide
Etat : Neuf
Etat de la jaquette : Neuf
Signé : Signé par l'auteur
Edition : Edition originale, Édition spéciale