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The book, a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time, Keith Houston

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The book, a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time, Keith Houston

Language

eng

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Main title

The book

Medium

electronic resource

Responsibility statement

Keith Houston

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a cover-to-cover exploration of the most powerful object of our time

Summary

We may love books, but do we know what lies behind them? In The Book, Keith Houston reveals that the paper, ink, thread, glue, and board from which a book is made tell as rich a story as the words on its pages-of civilizations, empires, human ingenuity, and madness. In an invitingly tactile history of this 2,000-year-old medium, Houston follows the development of writing, printing, the art of illustrations, and binding to show how we have moved from cuneiform tablets and papyrus scrolls to the hardcovers and paperbacks of today. The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity's most important-and universal-information technology

Target audience

adult

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