title: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe
author:  Elizabeth L. Eisenstein 
description: 'This is a good and important book. The author's clear and forceful style makes it a pleasure to read.' D. P. Walker, The New York Review of Books<br /><br />'Eisenstein has an intimate familiarity with the great narrative of modern history since the fifteenth century. She boasts an unsurpassed feeling for the strengths and weaknesses of the ways in which historians have explained great changes.' Commonweal
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  THE PRINTING REVOLUTION IN 
  EARLY MODERN EUROPE 
  
  The press descending from the heavens 
  
  THE PRINTING REVOLUTION 
  IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE 
  ELIZABETH L. EISENSTEIN 
  University of Michigan 
  CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 
  CAMBRIDGE 
  LONDON NEW YORK NEW ROCHELLE 
  MELBOURNE SYDNEY 
  
  Published by the Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge 
  The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge cb2 irp 
  32 East 57th Street, New York, ny 10022, USA 
  296 Beaconsfield Parade, Middle Park, Melbourne 3206, Australia 
  ' © Cambridge University Press 1983 
  . First published 1983 
  Printed in the United States of America 
  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data 
  Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. 
  The printing revolution in early modem Europe. 
  Bibliography:p. 
  Includes index. 
  I. Printing-History. 2. Europe - Intellectual hfe- 
  History. 3. Technology and civilization. I. Title. 
  Z124.E374 1983 686.2'o9 83-10145 
  ISBN o 521 25858 8 hard covers 
  ISBN o 521 27735 3 paperback