2003, ISBN: 0712347771

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[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.79], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 42405 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.79], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 42405 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY. PRINTING, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 514 pp, ills, maps. From the blurb: "Nicolas Barker has made many contributions to the study of the book. These essays show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.".Contents: Introduction; BOOKS AND TEXTS, MEDIEVAL AND LATER: A Very Famous Line; Donne's "Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche'; The Medieval Book; In Praise of Manuscripts ; Quiring and the Binder: quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings; A Register of Writs and the Scales Binder; TYPOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING: The Invention of Printing: revolution within revolution; The St Albans Press: the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder?; Caxton's Typography; Caxton's Quincentenary: a retrospect; House of Easchede and the History of Typefounding in the Netherlands; The Death of the OUP Printing House; The Future of Typographic Studies; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: A Note on the Bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802; Books and Readers 1475-1640; Reflections on the History of the Book; The History of the Book from Documents; Foxon - and After?; Ireland and the Book Trade; 'Ireland, Where Booksellers Cannot Pretend to Any Property' ; The Rise of the Provincial Book Trade in England and the Growth of a National Transport System ; FORGERY: A Scandal in America; A Note on Two Poems; C. S. Lewis, Darkly; Starling Burgess, No Type Designer; Mismanaging Mother: was William Beckford really a forger? ; BOOKS AND PEOPLE: Seen in a Window; The Warden's Meeting: a Tribute to John Sparrow ; A Curious Copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century; The Library Catalogue of Laurence Sterne; William Strahan and Laurence Sterne; Antonio Agustin's Letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Antonio Agustin ; BOOKSELLING: The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values:an essay in bibliometry; Four Booksellers; The Kraus Saga; LIBRARIES OR WHO CARES ABOUT OLD BOOKS: Sion, Evelyn, and What Next? ; The Rape of the Rylands; Libraries and the National Literary Heritage: two views from Europe; The Catalogue and the Card; The Edible Book; Addenda; Index. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.<

2003, ISBN: 0712347771

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[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.77], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.77], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY. PRINTING, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 514 pp, ills, maps. From the blurb: "Nicolas Barker has made many contributions to the study of the book. These essays show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.".Contents: Introduction; BOOKS AND TEXTS, MEDIEVAL AND LATER: A Very Famous Line; Donne's "Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche'; The Medieval Book; In Praise of Manuscripts ; Quiring and the Binder: quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings; A Register of Writs and the Scales Binder; TYPOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING: The Invention of Printing: revolution within revolution; The St Albans Press: the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder?; Caxton's Typography; Caxton's Quincentenary: a retrospect; House of Easchede and the History of Typefounding in the Netherlands; The Death of the OUP Printing House; The Future of Typographic Studies; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: A Note on the Bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802; Books and Readers 1475-1640; Reflections on the History of the Book; The History of the Book from Documents; Foxon - and After?; Ireland and the Book Trade; 'Ireland, Where Booksellers Cannot Pretend to Any Property' ; The Rise of the Provincial Book Trade in England and the Growth of a National Transport System ; FORGERY: A Scandal in America; A Note on Two Poems; C. S. Lewis, Darkly; Starling Burgess, No Type Designer; Mismanaging Mother: was William Beckford really a forger? ; BOOKS AND PEOPLE: Seen in a Window; The Warden's Meeting: a Tribute to John Sparrow ; A Curious Copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century; The Library Catalogue of Laurence Sterne; William Strahan and Laurence Sterne; Antonio Agustin's Letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Antonio Agustin ; BOOKSELLING: The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values:an essay in bibliometry; Four Booksellers; The Kraus Saga; LIBRARIES OR WHO CARES ABOUT OLD BOOKS: Sion, Evelyn, and What Next? ; The Rape of the Rylands; Libraries and the National Literary Heritage: two views from Europe; The Catalogue and the Card; The Edible Book; Addenda; Index. As New in dustwrapper.<

2003, ISBN: 0712347771

Gebundene Ausgabe

[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.79], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780712347778], [SC: 12.79], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY. PRINTING, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 514 pp, ills, maps. From the blurb: "Nicolas Barker has made many contributions to the study of the book. These essays show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.".Contents: Introduction; BOOKS AND TEXTS, MEDIEVAL AND LATER: A Very Famous Line; Donne's "Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche'; The Medieval Book; In Praise of Manuscripts ; Quiring and the Binder: quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings; A Register of Writs and the Scales Binder; TYPOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING: The Invention of Printing: revolution within revolution; The St Albans Press: the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder?; Caxton's Typography; Caxton's Quincentenary: a retrospect; House of Easchede and the History of Typefounding in the Netherlands; The Death of the OUP Printing House; The Future of Typographic Studies; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: A Note on the Bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802; Books and Readers 1475-1640; Reflections on the History of the Book; The History of the Book from Documents; Foxon - and After?; Ireland and the Book Trade; 'Ireland, Where Booksellers Cannot Pretend to Any Property' ; The Rise of the Provincial Book Trade in England and the Growth of a National Transport System ; FORGERY: A Scandal in America; A Note on Two Poems; C. S. Lewis, Darkly; Starling Burgess, No Type Designer; Mismanaging Mother: was William Beckford really a forger? ; BOOKS AND PEOPLE: Seen in a Window; The Warden's Meeting: a Tribute to John Sparrow ; A Curious Copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century; The Library Catalogue of Laurence Sterne; William Strahan and Laurence Sterne; Antonio Agustin's Letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Antonio Agustin ; BOOKSELLING: The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values:an essay in bibliometry; Four Booksellers; The Kraus Saga; LIBRARIES OR WHO CARES ABOUT OLD BOOKS: Sion, Evelyn, and What Next? ; The Rape of the Rylands; Libraries and the National Literary Heritage: two views from Europe; The Catalogue and the Card; The Edible Book; Addenda; Index. As New in dustwrapper.<

2003, ISBN: 0712347771

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[EAN: 9780712347778], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY. PRINTING, J… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780712347778], [PU: British Library, London, first edition, 2003], HISTORY OF THE BOOK. WYKBOOKS 33450 BARKER, NICOLAS BRITISH, LIBRARY BOOKS - SOCIAL ASPECTS. HISTORY. PRINTING, Jacket, Cloth, 8vo, xiii, 514 pp, ills, maps. From the blurb: "Nicolas Barker has made many contributions to the study of the book. These essays show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former Librarian of the London Library.".Contents: Introduction; BOOKS AND TEXTS, MEDIEVAL AND LATER: A Very Famous Line; Donne's "Letter to the Lady Carey and Mrs. Essex Riche'; The Medieval Book; In Praise of Manuscripts ; Quiring and the Binder: quire-marks in some manuscripts in fifteenth-century blind-stamped bindings; A Register of Writs and the Scales Binder; TYPOGRAPHY AND EARLY PRINTING: The Invention of Printing: revolution within revolution; The St Albans Press: the first punch-cutter in England and the first native typefounder?; Caxton's Typography; Caxton's Quincentenary: a retrospect; House of Easchede and the History of Typefounding in the Netherlands; The Death of the OUP Printing House; The Future of Typographic Studies; HISTORY OF THE BOOK: A Note on the Bibliography of Gibbon, 1776-1802; Books and Readers 1475-1640; Reflections on the History of the Book; The History of the Book from Documents; Foxon - and After?; Ireland and the Book Trade; 'Ireland, Where Booksellers Cannot Pretend to Any Property' ; The Rise of the Provincial Book Trade in England and the Growth of a National Transport System ; FORGERY: A Scandal in America; A Note on Two Poems; C. S. Lewis, Darkly; Starling Burgess, No Type Designer; Mismanaging Mother: was William Beckford really a forger? ; BOOKS AND PEOPLE: Seen in a Window; The Warden's Meeting: a Tribute to John Sparrow ; A Curious Copy of Sallust, Italy, late fifteenth century; The Library Catalogue of Laurence Sterne; William Strahan and Laurence Sterne; Antonio Agustin's Letter to Diego Hurtado de Mendoza; Antonio Agustin ; BOOKSELLING: The Aesthetic Investor's Guide to Current Literary Values:an essay in bibliometry; Four Booksellers; The Kraus Saga; LIBRARIES OR WHO CARES ABOUT OLD BOOKS: Sion, Evelyn, and What Next? ; The Rape of the Rylands; Libraries and the National Literary Heritage: two views from Europe; The Catalogue and the Card; The Edible Book; Addenda; Index. As New in dustwrapper.<

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