The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Stocking Stuffer New York Times #1 Bestselling

New York Times #1 Bestselling artist Charles Santore

It is the candid

though some would call it a confession

Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger

The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Stocking Stuffer New York Times #1 BestsellingThe five hundred year history of printed books, told through the people who created themBooks tell all kinds of storiesromances, tragedies, comediesbut if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book Makers offers a new way into the story of Western cultures most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind