The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time (Hardcover)
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The Book: A Cover-to-Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of Our Time (Hardcover)

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Brand: Keith Houston

“Everybody who has ever read a book will benefit from the way Keith Houston explores the most powerful object of our time. And everybody who has read it will agree that reports of the book’s death have been greatly exaggerated.”—Erik Spiekermann, typographer


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. Sure to delight book lovers of all stripes with its lush, full-color illustrations, The Book gives us the momentous and surprising history behind humanity’s most important—and universal—information technology.

 



About the Author


Keith Houston  is the author of  Shady Characters  and  The Book. His writing has appeared in the  New York Times, the  Wall Street Journal, the  Financial Times,  Mental Floss,  BBC Culture, and on Time.com. He lives in Birmingham, England.
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