The Book-Makers by Adam Smyth review – bound to be brilliant
From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books
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From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books
For some readers this book will have the charm of the Antiques Roadshow. Adam Smyth, professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford, presents with caressing attention to technical detail an array of illustrious book people. They may be unfamiliar names to those who don’t know a colophon from
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