{"product_id":"book-makers","title":"Book-Makers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e* AN \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 * A \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE SUMMER 2024 *\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This really is the loveliest of books' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eI\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I cannot recommend it highly enough' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eSPECTATOR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e and 15\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e centuries. Others we’ve forgotten. We don't recall 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 publishing before Jeff Bezos. Nor William Wildgoose, who meticulously bound Shakespeare’s First Folio, then disappeared.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers\u003c\/i\u003e puts people back into the story of the book. It takes us inside the print-shop as the deadline looms and the adrenaline flows – from the Fleet Street of 1492 to present-day New York. It’s a tale of contingencies and quirks, of successes and failures, of routes forward and paths not taken. This is a history of book-making that leaves ink on your fingers, and shows why the printed book will continue to flourish.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Amazing. This book is a soul-expanding celebration of the human spirit’\u003c\/b\u003e MARTIN LATHAM, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bookseller's Tale\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘A brilliant time machine of a book’\u003c\/b\u003e JOSEPH HONE, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book Forger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54258257002840,"sku":"9781529932669","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781529932669.jpg?v=1764386114","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/book-makers","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}