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Rebecca Romney

    Jane Austen's Bookshelf
    Printer's Error
    • Jane Austen's Bookshelf

      The Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend

      • 455 stránek
      • 16 hodin čtení

      Who were the women writers that inspired Jane Austen? Why have they all but disappeared from our bookshelves? Rare books dealer Rebecca Romney sheds a light on Austen's inspirations and contemporaries in this page-turning literary adventure, publishing to coincide with the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth.

      Jane Austen's Bookshelf2025
    • Printer's Error

      • 384 stránek
      • 14 hodin čtení

      Printer's Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing. For example, while the Gutenberg Bible is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg's name doesn't appear anywhere on it. Today, Johannes Gutenberg is recognized as the father of Western printing, but for the first few hundred years after the invention of the printing press, no one knew who printed the first book. This long-standing mystery took researchers down a labyrinth of ancient archives and libraries, revealing surprising details, such as the fact that Gutenberg's financier sued him, repossessed his printing equipment, and started his own printing business afterward. Printer's Error is a rollicking ride through the annals of time and the printed word.

      Printer's Error2019
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