Author: Henry Noel HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A History of the Art of Printing
Author: Henry Noel HumphreysPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Readers in a Revolution
Author: David McKitterickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009200844
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
This book traces a revolution in values that transformed nineteenth-century attitudes to second-hand books, bibliography and collecting.
A History of the Art of Printing from Its Invention to Its Wide-spread Development in the Middle of the Sixteenth Century
Author: Henry Noel HumphreysPublisher: London : B. Quaritch
ISBN:
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Author: The Bookseller of Florence
Author: Ross KingPublisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802158536
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome captures the Renaissance spirit in this biography of “the king of the world’s booksellers.” During the Renaissance, Florence’s manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world. At the heart of this activity, which bestselling author Ross King relates in his exhilarating new book, was a remarkable man: Vespasiano da Bisticci. Born in 1422, he became what a friend called “the king of the world’s booksellers.” At a time when all books were made by hand, Vespasiano produced and sold many hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for debate and discussion. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe who wished to burnish their reputations by founding magnificent libraries. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe’s most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, he was swept away by this epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced books reached readers who never could have afforded one of Vespasiano’s elegant manuscripts. A thrilling chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, Ross King’s brilliant The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of an extraordinary man long lost to history—one of the true titans of the Renaissance. “A dazzling, instructive and highly entertaining book.” —The Wall Street Journal
The Important Private Library of Charles V. Wheeler of Washington, D.C.
Author: The Important Private Library of C.V. Wheeler
Author: Charles V. WheelerCatalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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