Inky Fingers

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"Renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly divorced from physical tasks, they were artisans of script and print. Drawing new connections between text and craft, publishing and intellectual history, Grafton shows that the life of the mind depends on the work of the hands"--

subjects: Early printed books,  Books, history,  Humanists,  Printers,  Books,  History,  Livres anciens,  Livres,  Histoire,  Humanistes,  Imprimeurs,  Autor,  Buchherstellung,  Veröffentlichung,  Incunables,  Imprimés