A full-scale historical treatment of the advent of printing and its importance as an agent of change, first published in 1980.

Inspiring debate since the early days of its publication, Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transf

New illustrated and abridged edition surveys the communications revolution of the fifteenth century.

This classic work, first published as a Pelican Original in 1955 and maintained in successive editions until 1980 is now available in a finely illustrated large