Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein

Cambridge University Press 1993. Paperback, 300 pages, ENG, 215 x 140 mm, in good condition , with illustrations in b/w. with some red spots on top, not on the pages, ( track of time) ISBN 9780521447706. Although the importance of the advent of printing for Western civilisation has long been recognised, it was Professor Eisenstein, in her monumental, two-volume work, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, who provided the first full-scale treatment of the subject. This illustrated and abridged edition of Professor Eisenstein's study gives a stimulating survey of the communications revolution of the fifteenth century. It begins with a discussion of the general implications of the introduction of printing, and then explores how the shift from script to print entered into the three major movements of early modern times: the Renaissance, the Reformation, and the rise of modern science.