Printing and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during Five Centuries. Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. With an Introductory Essay by Denys Hay. First Edition.
1st Edition Hardcover Cassell & Co., 1967 Very Good Condition
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Book Publishing Details
| Author: | PMM: THE LANDMARK CATALOGUE OF BOOKS |
| Full title: | Printing and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during Five Centuries. Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. With an Introductory Essay by Denys Hay. First Edition. |
| Publisher: | Cassell & Co., 1967 |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Size: | 21.5 x 31 cms |
| Book ID: | 376075 |
Comments & Item Features
1st Edition. Category: Antiquarian & Rare. Language: English.
Printing and the Mind of Man, or PMM as it is often abbreviated, is the foremost guide and standard reference for many of the most influential works ever published. A landmark in bibliographical interpretation, Printing and the Mind of Man remains the most influential attempt to chart the intellectual consequences of print across five centuries. Denys Hay's introductory essay frames the enterprise with scholarly clarity, while the descriptive entries combine historical context, textual significance and bibliographical precision. Still unmatched as a guide to the transformative power of the printed book, PMM endures as a touchstone: part reference work, part intellectual map, and wholly indispensable.PMM still matters because it remains the only attempt to map the intellectual history of the West through the physical evidence of the book rather than through retrospective theory. Its selections are arguable - deliberately so - but its method endures: ideas are traced not as abstractions but as printed interventions that changed what people knew, how they reasoned, and how societies organised themselves. In an age of digital ephemera, PMM's insistence on the book as a historical agent feels newly urgent. It gives a shared canon, scholars a navigational grid, and collectors a disciplined way of thinking about significance. No other work has managed to combine bibliographical precision, historical argument and curatorial judgement with such lasting authority.
Bound in full salmon coloured cloth, with gilt lettered spine. No dustwrapper. Contents and binding very clean and sound. 34 pages, 280 pages, with illustrations in the text.
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Printing and the Mind of Man, or PMM as it is often abbreviated, is the foremost guide and standard reference for many of the most influential works ever published. A landmark in bibliographical interpretation, Printing and the Mind of Man remains the most influential attempt to chart the intellectual consequences of print across five centuries. Denys Hay's introductory essay frames the enterprise with scholarly clarity, while the descriptive entries combine historical context, textual significance and bibliographical precision. Still unmatched as a guide to the transformative power of the printed book, PMM endures as a touchstone: part reference work, part intellectual map, and wholly indispensable.PMM still matters because it remains the only attempt to map the intellectual history of the West through the physical evidence of the book rather than through retrospective theory. Its selections are arguable - deliberately so - but its method endures: ideas are traced not as abstractions but as printed interventions that changed what people knew, how they reasoned, and how societies organised themselves. In an age of digital ephemera, PMM's insistence on the book as a historical agent feels newly urgent. It gives a shared canon, scholars a navigational grid, and collectors a disciplined way of thinking about significance. No other work has managed to combine bibliographical precision, historical argument and curatorial judgement with such lasting authority.
Bound in full salmon coloured cloth, with gilt lettered spine. No dustwrapper. Contents and binding very clean and sound. 34 pages, 280 pages, with illustrations in the text.
SEE BELOW FOR DISCOUNTS & POSTAGE DETAILS
Book Condition Report
Book Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket: No Dust Jacket.
Size of Item & Shipped Weight
Size: 21.5 x 31 cms.
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BZDB395 Antiquarian & Rare; Books on Books; New Arrivals; Unbranded PMM: THE LANDMARK CATALOGUE OF BOOKS Printing and the Mind of Man. A Descriptive Catalogue Illustrating the Impact of Print on the Evolution of Western Civilization during Five Centuries. Edited by John Carter & Percy H. Muir. With an Introductory Essay by Denys Hay. First Edition.
