Inky Fingers
Subtitle: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780674237179
Subjects: Early printed books; Books, history; Humanists; Printers
Description: "Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"--