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Title: The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Modern Classics) by Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin, David Gerard, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ISBN: 0860917975 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: November, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5

Rating: 5
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Comment: The Coming of the Book is essential reading for anyone interested in book history, the development of modern literary languages, or the growth of capitalism in early modern Europe. It's an excellent example of the social history that the Annales school of sociologists and historians worked to produce: coherent narrative drawn not from specific important events but from the interpretation of massive amounts of data on the 'everyday' professional lives of early type founders, journeyman printers, shippers and booksellers. Most importantly, Febvre and Martin analyze the affect that the unique pressures of print as a capitalist enterprise (the capital investment in type, the costs of paper and of labor, problems in transport and marketing) had on the development of standardized print-languages, the development of 'mass' culture, and the spread and evolving functions of literacy.

Rating: 5
Summary: A wonderful history of early printing
Comment: Lucien Febvre and Jean-Henri Martin have integrated careful archival research with a lively recounting of history which transcends individual rulers in this account of early printing. The book is particularly interesting since we also live in a time when the economics and sociology of information dissemination is changing quickly.

The reaction of the early copyright system in place at medieval universities to new realities, of the technical innovation necessary to make good type founts, and of early print censorship were particularly interesting. I also enjoyed the discussion of the documentary evidence about Gutenburg and his unhappy relations with his financial backers.

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