Books. A Living History

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For more than two and a half thousand years, the book, in a wide range of forms, has been used to document, to educate and to entertain.
The eminent authority Martyn Lyons charts the worldwide evolution of the book through the centuries, from the cuneiform tablets of ancient Sumer through the development of moveable type and the emergence of the modern information revolution. Among the carefully selected illustrations in this tome are Mayan codices, Egyptian papyrus scrolls, medieval illuminate

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