The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance Book

The Bookseller of Florence : Hardback : Vintage Publishing : 9781784742652 : 1784742651 : 01 Apr 2021 : 'If you want to celebrate the place that bookmaking and bookselling still have in our lives . . . immerse yourself in Ross King's rich history of Vespasiano da Bisticci, "the king of the world's booksellers,"" in 15th-century Florence . . . wonderful' SIMON SCHAMA, NEW YORK TIMES 'A spectacular life of the book trade's Renaissance man . . . King's supreme ability is to imagine himself into the past . . . The scope of his knowledge is staggering' JOHN CAREY, SUNDAY TIMES An exhilarating and untold..."Read More

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  • Foyles

    An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the...

  • 1784742651
  • 9781784742652
  • King, Dr Ross
  • 1 April 2021
  • Chatto & Windus
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 496
  • First Edition
  • Book
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