printing: Bibliography

An excellent selected bibliography is H. Lehmann-Haupt, One Hundred Books about Bookmaking (1949). See W. Chappell, A Short History of the Printed Word (1970); L. Febvre and H.-J. Martin, The Coming of the Book (1976); E. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979) and Divine Art, Infernal Machine (2010).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Modern Innovations
• Illustrations and Color Printing
• Screen Process
• Lithography
• Intaglio
• Typesetting
• Mechanization
• Early History
• Bibliography

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