A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books

by Daniela Laube, Daniel De Simone, Daniel Simone, et al.

Book Overview

The combination of the woodcuta print method devised early in the fifteenth centurywith Johannes Gutenberg's revolutionary invention of printing with moveable type resulted in a powerful explosion of information and ideas. For the first time, it was possible to use a mechanized system to print identical copies of books containing both text and images. Featured in A Heavenly Craft are the earliest surviving examples of these books from throughout...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807615366
• ISBN13: 9780807615362
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: George Braziller
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.3" x 12.0"