Selected by New York Times Book Review as a Best Book Since 2000“[Pettegree] offers a radically new understanding of printing in the years of its birth and youth.”—Robert Pinsky, New York Times Book Review“[A] fine new study.”—Adam Gopnik, New Yorker“Pettegree’s book has a clear and solid structure. . . . There is so much to enjoy here.”—Martin Davies, Times Literary SupplementSelected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the General categoryWinner of the 2011 Phyllis Goodhart Gordon Book Prize, presented by the Renaissance Society of America“An authoritative, innovative and succinct account of one of the most fundamental issues in Renaissance history, the role of the printed book.”—Henry Kamen