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paperback. Condition: Good. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. American First. Complete number line from 1 to 10; minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white reproductions of drawings and paintings. Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A nice, bright copy. ; Material Texts; B&W Illustrations; 8.9 X 6.0 X 1.0 inches; 368 pages.

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Divine Art, Infernal Machine: The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information overload. In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by the digital. The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now, however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.…

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Condition: new.

Condition: New. pp. 384 24 Illus.

Condition: New. The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: TDPP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608. . 2012. Paperback. . . . .…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 384 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: TDPP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 608. . 2012. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

Condition: New.

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Condition: New. pp. 384.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardcover. Condition: As New. Feels unopened.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 384 pages. 9.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Tapa blanda. Condition: New. EISENSTEIN, E. L.: DIVINE ART, INFERNAL MACHINE. THE RECEPTION OF PRINTING IN THE WEST FROM FIRST IMPRESSIONS TO THE SENSE OF AN ENDING [HA. PHILADELPHIA, PA, 2011, xiii 368 p. figuras, 750 gr. Encuadernacion original. Nuevo. (VA-1-4) 750 gr. Libro.

Paperback. Condition: New. There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information overload. In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by the digital. The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now, however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.…

Condition: New. The author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change offers a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in wh.