The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth Books Mexico and the black tourmaline

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The Book-Makers - Adam Smyth Books Mexico and the black tourmalineThis is an extraordinary story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error. Of printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper makers and library founders. Some we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin, and watch Thomas Cobden Sanderson conjure books that flicker between the 20th and 15th centuries. Others weve forgotten. We don't recall Sarah Eaves, wife of John Baskerville, and