Author: Henry HuthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Huth Library
Author: Henry HuthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Sotheby, Wilkinson & HodgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique ... Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets. Collected and Arranged by J. R. Smith
Author: John Russell SmithCatalogue ...of the Renowned Library Formerly at Britwell Court, Burnham, Bucks
Author: Sydney Richardson Christie-MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred PartingtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Catalogues of Sales
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1252
Book Description
A Catalogue of a Unique and Interesting Collection of Upwards of Twenty-six Thousand Ancient and Modern Tracts and Pamphlets
Author: Alfred Russell SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Collecting, Curating, and Researching Writers' Libraries
Author: Richard W. OramPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442234989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Academic collection practices in recent years have extended to the private libraries of notable individual authors. As a consequence, book historians have become more interested in the study of provenance of the contents of these libraries, while literary scholars have devoted more attention to authorial annotations. At the same time, the Internet has encouraged both scholarly and hobbyist reconstructions of private libraries (see, for example, the “Legacy Libraries” on Librarything.com). Although there are many bibliographies and reconstructions of the libraries of authors, this is the first general consideration of these libraries and serves as an introduction to best practices for academic libraries in their acquisition, cataloging and issues of access. This collection begins with principal editor Richard Oram’s historical overview of writers’ libraries and institutional collecting, focusing primarily on English-language authors. The co-editor, Joseph Nicholson, has provided a definitive review of best cataloging and arrangement practices that facilitate scholarly access. The bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell discusses the marketing of these collections and obstacles to placing intact author libraries in institutions. Also included are case studies by Amanda Golden and David Faulds relating to the personal libraries of the poets Anne Sexton and Ted Hughes, indicating how these collections have the potential to enhance archival research. Fiction writers Iain Sinclair, Russell Banks, Jim Crace, poet Ted Kooser, and biographer Ron Powers describe their (sometimes passionate) relationship with books and their own personal libraries. The concluding chapter, a location guide to over 500 individual libraries, will be invaluable to scholars and librarians who want to know where writers’ libraries are currently located, what happened to them (if they are known to have been sold or dispersed), and what has been written about them.
Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books
Author: Margaret ConnollyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108652204
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This innovative study investigates the reception of medieval manuscripts over a long century, 1470–1585, spanning the reigns of Edward IV to Elizabeth I. Members of the Tudor gentry family who owned these manuscripts had properties in Willesden and professional affiliations in London. These men marked the leaves of their books with signs of use, allowing their engagement with the texts contained there to be reconstructed. Through detailed research, Margaret Connolly reveals the various uses of these old books: as a repository for family records; as a place to preserve other texts of a favourite or important nature; as a source of practical information for the household; and as a professional manual for the practising lawyer. Investigation of these family-owned books reveals an unexpectedly strong interest in works of the past, and the continuing intellectual and domestic importance of medieval manuscripts in an age of print.