books by Henri-Jean Martin

books by Henri-Jean Martin

books:

Henri-Jean Martin

The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450-1800 (Verso Classics, 10)

Lucien Febvre, Henri-Jean Martin

Verso, 1997

A readable treatment of the spread of books and its affects
Febvre and Martin's, The Coming of the Book, is a scholarly work without the dry academic tone of a textbook. Having said that, this isn't a casual read, as the authors will provide some of the details of edition sizes, costs, and distribution. The authors themselves ...

Mirror, Mirror
Alexandra Fonseca, Andrea Holzherr, ...

MagnumSteidl, 2005

In 2004, the Centro Cultural de Belem in Lisbon organized the exhibition Mirror, Mirror , which presented images of Portugal as seen by 13 Magnum photographers. The exhibition and this accompanying catalogue provide a look at Portugal from the 1950s to the present through the eyes of some of the world's foremost journalistic and artistic ...

The History and Power of Writing

Henri-Jean Martin

University Of Chicago Press, 1995

Powerful Writing
If you, like me, are fascinated by the history of ideas then this is a book for you. This work explains to us, who are accustomed to writing (whether "by hand" or on keyboards), what the change to uniform alphabets and writing skills brought. What was it like to be ...

Le livre francais sous l'Ancien Regime (Histoire du livre) (French Edition)
Henri Jean Martin

Promodis/Editions du Cercle de la librairie, 1987

The French Book: Religion, Absolutism and Readership, 1585-1715 (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative ...
Henri-Jean Martin

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996

The book as the subject of a distinct historical discipline dates from the landmark publication of L'Apparition du livre by Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin in 1958. In this further contribution to his pathbreaking work with Febvre, eminent French historian Henri-Jean Martin explores the role of the book and book industry in early modern ...