The Coming of the Book

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• 14世纪末的巴黎，书写用兽皮的价格在12到20德涅（查理曼大帝仿造古罗马银元denarius制定的货币单位）间波动。一张兽皮的平均面积为0.5平方米，10到12块才够做成一本150张书叶，每张长24厘米、宽16厘米的书；这是14、15世纪手抄本的典型尺寸。这样一本书的原料成本，至少10苏（法国古币，1苏可兑12德涅），至多20苏；这还不包括4到6德涅的处理成本，即将表面鬃毛与其他污渍去除以便书写所需的工钱。 (查看原文)

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• But many of them (printers), particularly those with limited means, could not work like this. Having set out from home and with no capital other than a little equipment, a few matrices and some punches, they used founts already cut although far from their own locality. Hence we can follow the journey of a black letter from Basel, for example, to Lyons, to Toulouse, and on as far as Spain. (p. 80.) Books of engravings became collectors' pieces, and, increasingly, merchants and even humbler people, too poor to possess paintings, adorned the walls of their houses with prints. (p. 101.) He (the engraver) was the photographer of his day. ... The print also played its critical part in the diffusion of works of art. (p. 102.) From the invention of printing right up to the 18th century, although... (查看原文)

  聶㊣ ✈ 馬騮 2011-03-28 04:03:42

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