The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, David Wootton
The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, David Wootton

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, David Wootton

378 pages first pub 1958 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative slow-paced
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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 th...

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