{"product_id":"9781529932669","title":"The Book-Makers","description":"Author: Smyth, Adam\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529932669\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Aug 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 400\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery book-lover's dream- a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the remarkable lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers\u003c\/i\u003e is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions- printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and American Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the early twentieth century and the fifteenth. Others have been forgotten. We don't remember 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 book publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare's First Folio, and then disappeared from history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers\u003c\/i\u003e puts people back into the story of the book. It takes you inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows - from 1492 Fleet Street to 2023 New York. It's a story of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. \u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers\u003c\/i\u003e is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and it shows why the printed book will continual to flourish.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46722422571166,"sku":"UBD-9781529932669","price":27.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529932669.jpg?v=1776319497","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529932669","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}