Book 2020

Inky Fingers

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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 2020

Early printed books
Books, history
Humanists
Printers
Books
History
Livres anciens
Livres

"Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"--