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ideonode t1_j2yc0m4 wrote

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The Bookshop of the World is on my reading list. Did you read it in hardback, paperback or ebook? I've seen the paperback, and the print is small, but the hardback is quite expensive...

I'd also echo The Bookseller of Florence by Ross King - an excellent narrative history of the twilight of manuscript printing in Renaissance Florence.

I've posted a few posts recently about history books about books / manuscripts. Some recent examples include The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by de Hamel, and The Lost Gutenberg by Margaret Leslie Davis

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Gary_Shea t1_j33bo2x wrote

Thanks to both commentators for the Ross King suggestion. My Yale UP copy of The Bookshop of the World is indeed a paperback and looking at it again I can agree that the print is small by common trade paperback standards today. Perhaps it needed to be produced as a larger format paperback.

And the two new suggestions are very welcome too. While we are on the topic of the history of books and printing, I have an additional title to suggest that I read two years ago: The Paper Chase by Joseph Hone, a case-study of a clandestine printing operation in Queen Anne's London. Cheers! and Happy New Year

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