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title: "500 Years of Book Design"
url: https://architect-books.com/500_Years_of_Book_Design_0300090587
description: "500 Years of Book Design, by Alan Bartram, ISBN 0300090587 in the Architect Books catalogue."
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# 500 Years of Book Design

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Alan Bartram

- **Author line**Alan Bartram
- **Released**01 October, 2001
- **ISBN**0300090587
- **Binding**Hardcover

## Reader notes

### Thin

There are several superb books on the history of book design: Joseph Blumenthal, Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955; Norma Levarie, The Art and History of Books; S. H. Steinberg, Five Hundred Years of Printing; and Warren Chappell and Robert Bringhurst, A Short History of the Printed Word. Alas Alan Bartrams Five Hundred Years of Book Design is uninformative, unscholarly, and unpleasant. The analytical level is casual, adolescent. Readers will learn little about books from the thin text. The photographs of the great books, taken at the British Library, are murky and out of focus. How did Yale University Press come to publish this turkey?

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