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The Coming of the Book

The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)

by Lucien Febvre

1976 378 pages eng

"The emergence of the book was not merely an event of world historical importance, but the dawn of modernity. In this much praised work, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, with the study of consciousness itself to root th…

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