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THE BOOK-MAKERS - ADAM SMYTH GEBUNDEN

A celebration of the printed book  told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical
new directions.  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

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