Author: R. C. DograPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Catalogue of the Early Printed Books on South Asia
Author: R. C. DograPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Catalogue of the Early Printed Books on South Asia
Author: R. C. DograPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558
Author: Vincent GillespiePublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843843633
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it.
Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland
Author: Karen AttarPublisher: Facet Publishing
ISBN: 1783300167
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
South Asia
Author: Donald Frederick LachPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467542
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Orthographies in Early Modern Europe
Author: Susan BaddeleyPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110288176
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This volume provides, for the first time, a pan-European view of the development of written languages at a key time in their history: that of the 16th century. The major cultural and intellectual upheavals that affected Europe at the time - Humanism, the Reformation and the emergence of modern nation-states - were not isolated phenomena, and the evolution of the orthographical systems of European languages shows a large number of convergences, due to the mobility of scholars, ideas and technological innovations throughout the period.
Materials on Asia, accession list and review
Author: General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
International Books in Print
Author: The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Author: Edward Wilson-LeePublisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1982111402
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollywood blockbusters” (NPR) and offers a vivid picture of Europe on the verge of becoming modern. At the peak of the Age of Exploration, Hernando Colón sailed with his father Christopher Columbus on his final voyage to the New World, a journey that ended in disaster, bloody mutiny, and shipwreck. After Columbus’s death in 1506, eighteen-year-old Hernando sought to continue—and surpass—his father’s campaign to explore the boundaries of the known world by building a library that would collect everything ever printed: a vast holding organized by summaries and catalogues; really, the first ever database for the exploding diversity of written matter as the printing press proliferated across Europe. Hernando traveled extensively and obsessively amassed his collection based on the groundbreaking conviction that a library of universal knowledge should include “all books, in all languages and on all subjects,” even material often dismissed: ballads, erotica, news pamphlets, almanacs, popular images, romances, fables. The loss of part of his collection to another maritime disaster in 1522, set off the final scramble to complete this sublime project, a race against time to realize a vision of near-impossible perfection. “Magnificent…a thrill on almost every page” (The New York Times Book Review), The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books is a window into sixteenth-century Europe’s information revolution, and a reflection of the passion and intrigues that lie beneath our own insatiable desires to bring order to the world today.