evolution of the book – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures evolution of the book in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
The framed print arrives ready to hang; the unframed option suits custom framing. A fine choice for anyone who loves history, and a gift that gets noticed. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past, founded in 2001, has served tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
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Titled "Evolution of the Book," this picture frames its subject as a sequence rather than a single moment, tracing how the object itself has changed over time. The codex, a bound stack of pages, replaced the papyrus scroll in the early centuries of the Common Era, and it gave later readers a format that could be opened at any point. Movable-type printing in Europe around 1450 made books far cheaper and more numerous, and the idea of a book as a mass-produced object took hold from there. Worth noticing in a subject like this is how each change in materials and production altered who could read and what reading looked like.
| Original scan | 4,078 × 3,309 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 07357u evolution of the book |
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