by ProfessorHenryPetroski (Author)
Henry 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 Apr 2003
ISBN 10: 057121763X
ISBN 13: 9780571217632