The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)
by Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin

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Author: Henri-Jean Martin, Lucien Febvre
Translator: David Gerard
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-01
ISBN: 1859841082
Number of pages: 378
Publisher: Verso

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Book Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars

Let me state, before beginning to comment, that I did not read the English version, but the French one. The comment therefore pertains only to the contents.

There is a great deal of information in this book: technical, historical and cultural.

If there is something to pick upon, it will be that the book focus too much in France - but then, this is only normal and it may be argued that France having been one of the most important cultural centers of Europe this is no bad thing.

The book is very well written: in some places it may be difficult to understand unless one already knows something about printing and casting, but it is always very clear. The logical integration of the book - I mean, the connection of ideas - and the balance between facts and interpretations is extremely good. In fact, it is possible to read it for very long hours indeed, which is rare for books on books.

As far as I know, in terms of quality, it is the very best book on this subject.

Some people will deplore the lack of pictures. But I think the flow would be compromised and, in any case, there are other books which illustrate printing history.

Excellent

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Summary of The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

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