{"product_id":"printers-error-irreverent-stories-from-book-history-9780062412324","title":"Printer's Error: Irreverent Stories from Book History","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rebecca Romney\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Books \u0026amp; Reading\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrint history, like any history, is full of strange people and goings-on. The road paved by our civilization's best books is a long and noble one, but it is also lined with unexpected potholes and sharp turns into what-the-hell-is-going-on-here territory. Illustrators talking to ghosts, maps bringing countries to their knees, Shakespeare writing awful plays, and Charles Dickens branding America a nation of filthy literary thieves all serve as back alleys into which the authors could descend. Correction: into which the authors did descend.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsider that today a Gutenberg Bible is the Holy Grail of book collecting. But that wasn't always so. James Lennox, a New York millionaire, sent an agent to bid on his behalf at a London auction in 1847. At that point, no one had ever paid more than £215 for a Gutenberg Bible. His agent became embroiled in a bidding war and when the dust settled, Lennox was on the hook for an eye-popping £500. Lennox was so angry about the exorbitant sticker price that he flatly refused to pay it. Eventually he came around, which was clearly the right choice, since a Gutenberg Bible would sell for tens of millions of dollars today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong the many other tales told in \u003cem\u003ePrinter's Error\u003c\/em\u003e are the history of the \"bad\" versions of Shakespeare's plays, including a Hamlet who sounds more like a drunken pirate than a prince, and the fate of William Tyndale--who made the Holy Bible accessible to countless worshippers--who was also burned at the stake for heresy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408316588183,"sku":"9780062412324","price":1571.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780062412324.webp?v=1767105667","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/printers-error-irreverent-stories-from-book-history-9780062412324","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}