Inky Fingers

Name: Inky Fingers
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

Inky FingersThe Making of Books in Early Modern Europe\nAuthor(s): Anthony Grafton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: Harvard University Press\nISBN-13: 9780674271210, 978-0674271210\nSynopsis\nAn Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year\n\nGrafton presents largely unfamiliar materialin a clear, even breezy styleErudite.\nMichael Dirda, Washington Post\n\nIn 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 bookcompiling notebooks, copying and correcting proofs, preparing copyand shows us how scribes and scholars shaped influential treatises and forgeries.\n\nInky 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 ds