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Books and reading History Books Europe History 1450-1600 da Bisticci Vespasiano 1421-1498 Europe Intellectual life Gutenberg, Johann 1397?-1468 Printing Europe History 16th century Printing Europe History Origin and antecedents Printing History Origin and antecedents Reformation Europe RenaissanceSummary: Stephen Fry goes in search of the story behind the first media entrepreneur Johann Gutenberg, the man who invented the printing press, to find out why he did it and how.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Summary: "The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings-the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2021
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Summary: Describes the nature of books in the world before the development of the printing press and the subsequent effect of that invention on civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 686.2KREKrensky, Stephen.
Summary: Describes the nature of books in the world before the development of the printing press and the subsequent effect of that invention on civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 1996
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 686.2 KREPettegree, Andrew.
Summary: "The dawn of print was a major turning point in the early modern world. It rescued ancient learning from obscurity, transformed knowledge of the natural and physical world, and brought the thrill of book ownership to the masses. But, as Andrew Pettegree reveals, the story of the post-Guttenberg world was rather more complicated than we have often come to believe. The Book in the Renaissance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2010