Publication

2020 - Harvard University Press

Language

English

Word Count

88,000 words, Guess

Page Count

352 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-10067423717X
  • ISBN-139780674237179
  • Library of Congress Control Number2019051295
  • OCLC Control Number1240077429
  • Better World Books9780674237179
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Classifications

  • LCCZ124 .G688 2020

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"--

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Other Editions

  • Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern EuropeHarvard University Press2020-01-01

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