Full of book pages — The history of books

Author: Bruno Blasselle
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Publication Date: 2002-09-01
Features: One day, writing chose a new medium—parchment, paper, which replaced stone, clay, and papyrus. When text was written on folded sheets of paper, it became a book. From quill pens to movable type, from the diligent work of scribes to Gutenberg's new method, the leaps were purely technical: whether in the drawing of fonts or the retention of colored decorative letters, early books strove to imitate the splendor of manuscripts. One day, writing chose a new medium—parchment, paper, which replaced stone, clay, and papyrus, and when text was written on folded sheets of paper, it became a book. From quill pens to movable type, from the diligent work of scribes to Gutenberg's new method, the leaps were purely technical: whether in the drawing of fonts or the retention of colored decorative letters, early books strove to imitate the magnificence of manuscripts.