Author: Bernard QuaritchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A list of the chief books & manuscripts of the Perkins library, to be sold by auction in ... 1873 at Hanworth park
Author: Bernard QuaritchA List of the Chief Books & Manuscripts of the Perkins Library, to be Sold by Auction in the Months of May and June, 1873, at Hanworth Park
Author: Henry PerkinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900
Author: Annika BautzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429952392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.
The Perkins Library
Author: Henry PerkinsThe Splendor of the Word
Author: New York Public Library. Humanities and Social Sciences LibraryPublisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
The New York Public Librarys collection of nearly three hundred Western European illuminated manuscripts is one of the largest in America but also one that is very little known. Dating from the turn of the tenth century unto well into the period of the Renaissance, these works give vivid testimony to the creative impulses of the often nameless craftsmen who discovered ever-new ways of animating the contents of hand-produced books through inventive and sometimes exuberant manipulations of all the elements of the book: form and format, layout, script, decoration, illustration, and binding. To introduce this magnificent collection and many of its most important works to scholars and the wider audience, The Splendor of the Word presents one hundred manuscripts of particular cultural, historical, and artistic significance, selected from the Librarys collection.--Amazon.com.
The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art
Author: The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Literary and political reviews
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Saturday Review
Author: Prices of Books
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
English Book Collectors
Author: William Younger FletcherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description