Author: Daniel Melancthon TredwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Monograph on Privately Illustrated Books
Author: Daniel Melancthon TredwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Monograph, on Privatly-illustrated Books. A Plea for Bibliomania
Author: Daniel M ..... TredwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
The Book Lover
Author: Book-lover
Author: American Book Prices Current
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
The Diversions of a Book-lover
Author: Adrian Hoffman JolinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Book Madness
Author: Denise GigantePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265212
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.
The Track of the Book-Worm
Author: Irving BrownePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752328843
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Track of the Book-Worm by Irving Browne
The Angler's note-book and naturalist's record
Author: The Dictionary of the Book
Author: Sidney E. BergerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538151332
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.