Take a photo of a barcode or cover

—
Geoffrey Nowell Smith, David Wootton
378 pages • first pub 1958 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860917977
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings

—
Geoffrey Nowell Smith, David Wootton
378 pages • first pub 1958 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780860917977
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
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...