A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions. This is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others we’ve forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and her crucial contribution to The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth od authora Adam Smyth a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus. cz.