{"product_id":"the-book-makers-9781541609167","title":"The Book-Makers","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe five-hundred-year history of printed books, told through the people who created them \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Smyth breathes both books-as-objects and their creators back into life.” —\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An \u003ci\u003eEconomist \u003c\/i\u003eBook of the Year  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Books have transformed humankind, yet we know little about the individuals who brought these fascinating objects into existence. Who were these renegade book-makers who changed the course of history through their experiments in the arts of printing, paper making, type designing, binding, advertising, and selling? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Book-Makers \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a new way to understand the story of Western culture’s most important object through a series of dynamic portraits of eighteen men and women who helped to define the book. From Wynkyn de Worde’s cheap bestsellers produced in fifteenth-century London, to Nancy Cunard’s avant-garde pamphlets made on her small press in Normandy; from Benjamin Franklin’s inky entrepreneurialism, to the radical culture of contemporary zines, this is a celebration of the book with the people put back in. ","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079173488818,"sku":"9781541609167","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0536\/7418\/0786\/files\/O_c19e82bb-0c61-470d-9593-73f9151919ae.jpg?v=1778040772","url":"https:\/\/shop.hachettebookgroup.com\/products\/the-book-makers-9781541609167","provider":"Hachette Book Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}