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"In an understated, judicious manner, [Pettegree] offers a radically new understanding of printing in the years of its birth and youth."--Robert Pinsky, "The New York Times Book Review"--Robert Pinsky "The New York Times Book Review ""An authoritative, innovative and succinct account of one of the most fundamental issues in Renaissance history, the role of the printed book."--Henry Kamen--Henry Kamen
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About the Author
Andrew Pettegree is Head of the School of History at the University of St. Andrews and founding director of the St. Andrews Reformation Studies Institute.
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Product details
Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press; Reprint edition (November 22, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0300178212
ISBN-13: 978-0300178210
Product Dimensions:
5.8 x 1.2 x 8.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.0 out of 5 stars
14 customer reviews
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I had to read this for a course in graduate school and was very pleasantly surprised to learn the source of so many conventions regarding the printing of--and thinking about--books. Pettegree writes clearly and keeps things moving. The book looks imposing, but you can knock it off in a weekend. OK, maybe a long weekend. Wonderfully free of jargon, as well.
So as an amateur in this space of early books, I found this book to be just on the edge of okay for "intelligent non-specialist" and too simple for "specialist" in this domain. Makes it a challenging read, which I like. Pettegree is a fine author and writes quite well.But the KINDLE edition had no illustrations.... queer. (and I also have the hardcover, but I found reading the hardcover, when I'm now "trained" to kindle, as too awkward)But it's IRONIC that a book all about the rise of the codex technology applied to movable type and the social and business systems required to support the new high tech of the book world is crippled by having the pictures throughout missing because digital rights were not secured. (From perhaps old school libraries who think digital is going to let the proverbial Camel of Digital Theft into the Tent of the Bodleian?) This was MOST IRONIC when the text alongside the empty image frames was talking about how the art guilds in 15th C Germany were complaining about how the new tech of BOOKS was destroying the business of selling art prints.... new tech is often reviled by the old tech defenders.So reading an important book on the development of the book on a 21st century book stand (the kindle) is crippled by 19th century attitudes about copyright of 17th century libraries of originally uncopyrighted works of 15th century new book technology and presses...the image, well, it strikes me as they say "like turtles all the way down..."Same reactionary politics, different century. Humans! Buy this book. Read it.
A sweeping survey of the first 150 years of the European printed book ("book" here covers all printed texts including pamphlets and single leaf broadsides), from its invention by Gutenberg in 1450-55 to the end of the sixteenth century. During that time, printing spread from a single location in southern Germany to every corner of Europe and beyond, resulting in an estimated 350,000 different editions. The focus of the book is on the book as a business - "Printers were businessmen, and books were a commercial venture" (p. 129) - and, as the book progresses, on the Reformation (which resulted in an explosion of printing of Luther's pamphlets) and the subsequent wars, political conflicts and intrigues. Pettegree discusses what was printed, where and why; how the books were distributed and marketed, etc., tying this to the important historical and religious events of the sixteenth century. Along the way, he covers the expansion of printing to provide news and entertainment, the increase in printing in the vernacular, the birth of literary salons and women authors, the early printing of popular music, renaissance schools, emblem books, scientific works, botanical illustration, maps, printing in England, Scotland, Spain, Scandanavia, Eastern Europe, and Mexico, censorship and the Index, and a variety of other topics. Seemingly, nothing significant is omitted.In his analysis, Pettegree provides numerous important and new insights into the history of the early printed book. The book is dense with facts and specific examples. It includes many excellent illustrations of early printed books, including fine title pages. It contains extensive footnotes to sources, although unfortunately they are not at the bottom of pages of text, but at the back, indexed by page runs.Surprisingly, the author starts off the book with a significant error. He states that Gutenberg may have based his invention on the "model" of block books, short religious works in which both the text and images were printed from single woodcuts (p. 23). In fact, scholars have rejected the idea that block books were precursors of movable type books and have confirmed (through analysis of watermarks and owners' annotations) that virtually all surviving block books had been printed in the 1460s and later and none predate work on the Gutenberg Bible (1450). (See Allan Stevenson's "The Problem of the Blockbooks" and the other articles included in Blockbücher des Mittlealters, Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz (1991)). The illustrated "block book Bible" shown in fig. 4 and supposedly printed "c. 1430" actually is known as an "Apocalypse" and was printed c. 1465-70. The author also suggests that work on mechanical printing may have begun in the 1430s (p. 21), without mentioning that the early sources on which that is based are problematic and have been the subject of lengthy and inconclusive debate.Although I saw no other major errors, I did note a few minor ones. For example, type was inked using stuffed leather balls or pads with attached handles, and not "soft sponges" as the book states (Fig. 6). (See, e.g., Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (1972), p. 126.) The statement that the sixteenth century Giunta printing business in Florence "was a branch office of the family's Venice business" (p. 254) is incorrect; the two businesses were separately formed in the fifteenth century by a pair of brothers from Florence and were independently operated by them and their respective heirs following distinct strategies, devotional works in Venice and humanistic works in Florence. Although the two businesses entered into several partnerships, "direct participation of the Florentine firm in partnership with the Giunti of Venice ended in 1517." (Pettas, The Giunti of Florence, p. 112.) The reference to "Bohemia (now the Czech Republic)" (p. 112) is awkward, seemingly suggesting that Bohemia simply changed its name; something like "Bohemia (roughly the western part of today's Czech Republic)" would have been more accurate. And, although he discusses Aldus' famous small octavo editions (p. 61), he neglects to mention that Aldus began their printing in 1501, leaving their chronology unclear to the reader.Notwithstanding these small imperfections, this is a major addition to the early history of the book and clearly the most comprehensive study (in English at least) of the inter-relation of sixteenth century printing with the Reformation and religious turmoil of that period Pettegree's work will be indispensable to those fields.
This book tells us not only how printing, the book trade, and book collecting evolved, but also demonstrates that the 15th- and 16th-century books are not the first publications of Greek and Roman classics and the writings of the Renaissance humanists, but the everyday textbooks and novels and schoolbooks that have not survived because, as the author says, "they were used to destruction." Real scholarship and a wonderful read!
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Great survey of what happened when a new technology, the book, disrupted civilization. Very much like what digital is doing today, creating new industries while destroying old ones. Well written for the non-expert.
Fantastic book about the revolutionary changes wrought by the availability of cheaper books.
What I have learned from this well written book is that there is nothing new in the world of books and printing, and that all of the debate over ebooks was debated at the inception of printing.This book is very readable even though it imparts in depth information about the spread of printing. I also learned that good business practices had a lot to do with what got printed.It is an invaluable resource to anyone interested in the history of books. The book also arrived earlier than promised, which was nice.
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