The Pencil

Author: Henry Petroski

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Price : $35.00 AUD
ISBN : 9780571217632
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Imprint : Faber & Faber
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Weight (g) : 0.53
Publication date : 01 April 2003
Dimensions : 233mm X 140mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Henry Petroski
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Dewey classification : 674.88
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Pages : 448
BIC subject : Industrial / commercial art & design; History of specific subjects
Illustrations : 46 b&w illustrations
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Description

Petroski's witty and unexpected history of the pencil includes a wide range of characters: from the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and Toulouse-Lautrec, who declared, 'I am a pencil', to the great nineteenth-century manufacturing families, such as Dixon and Faber. Petroski charmingly celebrates the design history of one of mankind's most essential, and yet undervalued, tools.

Reviews

'One of those great books that starts a genre. A witty liaison between folk history and deconstruction, it manages to be both wide-angle lens and microscope. Enthralling.' Stephen Bayley

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