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The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives Stocking Stuffer though some would call itThe five hundred year history of printed books, told through the people who created themBooks tell all kinds of storiesromances, tragedies, comediesbut if we learn to read the signs correctly, they can tell us the story of their own making too. The Book Makers offers a new way into the story of Western cultures most important object, the book, through dynamic portraits of eighteen individuals who helped to define it. Books have transformed humankind