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Inky Fingers - The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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Inky Fingers - The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe (Paperback)
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year "Grafton presents
largely unfamiliar material...in a clear, even breezy
style...Erudite." -Michael Dirda, Washington Post In this
celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail,
Anthony Grafton captures both the physical and mental labors that
went into the golden age of the book-compiling notebooks, copying
and correcting proofs, preparing copy-and shows us how scribes and
scholars shaped influential treatises and forgeries. Inky Fingers
ranges widely, from the theological polemics of the early days of
printing to the pathbreaking works of Jean Mabillon and Baruch
Spinoza. Grafton draws new connections between humanistic
traditions and intellectual innovations, textual learning and the
delicate, arduous, error-riddled craft of making books. Through it
all, he reminds us that the life of the mind depends on the work of
the hands, and the nitty gritty labor of printmakers has had a
profound impact on the history of ideas. "Describes magnificent
achievements, storms of controversy, and sometimes the pure
devilment of scholars and printers...Captivating and often
amusing." -Wall Street Journal "Ideas, in this vivid telling,
emerge not just from minds but from hands, not to mention the
biceps that crank a press or heft a ream of paper." -New York
Review of Books "Grafton upends idealized understandings of early
modern scholarship and blurs distinctions between the physical and
mental labor that made the remarkable works of this period
possible." -Christine Jacobson, Book Post "Scholarship is a kind of
heroism in Grafton's account, his nine protagonists' aching backs
and tired eyes evidence of their valiant dedication to the pursuit
of knowledge." -London Review of Books
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