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This major study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been widely labeled the printing revolution of the early modern period. David McKitterick argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested. He re-evaluates the modern myths and misconceptions surrounding the emergence of print and invites readers to work forward from the past, rather than backwards into it.
List of contents
1. The printed work and the modern bibliographer; 2. Dependent skills; 3. Pictures in motley; 4. A house of errors; 5. Perfect and imperfect; 6. The art of printing; 7. Reevaluation: towards the modern book; 8. Machinery and manufactures; 9. Instabilities: the inherent and the deliberate; Index.
About the author
David McKitterick is Fellow and Librarian at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Summary
Now available in paperback, this magisterial study re-examines fundamental aspects of what has been widely termed the printing revolution of the early modern period, and argues that many of the changes associated with printing were only gradually absorbed over almost 400 years, a much longer period than usually suggested.
