May 18, 2012
May 18, 2012
This is the tenth of eleven observations I shared during my part in the conversation about Pen-to-Publication (see blog entry for 24 February 2012).
In his fascinating book, A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel writes “At the end of the 15th century, even though printing was by then well established, care for the elegant hand had not died out, and some of the most memorable examples of calligraphy still lay in the future . . . . It is interesting to note how often a technological development—such as Gutenberg’s [printing press]—promotes rather than eliminates that which it is supposed to supersede, making us aware of old-fashioned virtues we might otherwise have either overlooked . . . .”
A History of Reading, Alberto Manguel, Penguin, 1997
interesting links
Writing and Reading