Andrew Pettegree’s The Book in the Renaissance was today announced as one of the New York Times’ 100 notable books of the year 2010.

This prestigious annual list comprised 50 works of fiction and 50 non-fiction titles, and Pettegree’s work is one of only a handful of historical titles to make the list. It is also the only book published by a university press.

The Book in the Renaissance offers a revisionist history of book culture in the first 150 years after the invention of print. As with the modern media transformation of the digital age, bold predictions of what the new technology of print would bring to the conservative book culture of the manuscript age proved wide of the mark.

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The original New York Times Review, by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.