{"product_id":"9781541609167","title":"The Book-Makers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eEconomist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adam Smyth","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":67712739737700,"sku":"9781541609167","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/0502\/0516\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2ae6967c-0ead-41df-991b-a89120706d68.jpg?v=1791998015","url":"https:\/\/larkspurbooks.ca\/products\/9781541609167","provider":"Larkspur Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}