The coming of the book : the impact of printing, 1450-1800

Author(s)

• Febvre, Lucien Paul Victor
• Martin, Henri Jean
• Nowell-Smith, Geoffrey
• Wootton, David

Bibliographic Information

The coming of the book : the impact of printing, 1450-1800

Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin ; translated by David Gerard ; edited by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith and David Wootton

Verso, 1984

Other Title

L'apparition du livre

Note

Originally published: London : N.L.B., 1976

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.

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Details

• NCID: BA00427337
• ISBN:
  • 0860917975
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: 378 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z124
  • DC19 : 302.2/32
• Subject Headings:
  • PRECIS : Europe. Printing, 1450-1800 - Sociological perspectives
  • LCSH : Printing -- Europe -- History
  • LCSH : Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe