Stephen Fussel. Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing.(Book Review)

From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Sivak, Allison | Copyright information

Stephen Fussel. Gutenberg and the Impact of Printing. Trans. by Douglas Martin. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 200 pp.; US $59.95. ISBN 0754635376.

Noting in his foreword that an American team of journalists designated Johann Gutenberg as the "man of the millennium" due to his immeasurable impact on human communication, Stephen Fussel examines the first century after Gutenberg's invention, from the initial spread of printing technology across Europe to its role in Humanistic...

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