New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2020. In this celebration of bookmaking in all its messy and intricate detail, renowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as diligent workers. Meticulously illuminating the physical and mental labors that fostered the golden age of the book - the compiling of notebooks, copying and correction of texts and proofs, preparation of copy - he shows us how the exertions of scholars shaped influential books, treatises, and forgeries.