Starting from the invention of printing in the fifteenth century, Sinks looks back at the long age when every book was written by hand. He covers the Bible in manuscript, the human labour of scribes, and the materials that carried literature: clay and cuneiform, papyrus, parchment and vellum, early paper and the inks used on them.
An accessible survey for book lovers curious about writing and libraries before Gutenberg. Download the free EPUB.