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International directory of antiquarian booksellers
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ISSN: 05387159 Year: 1948 Publisher: Place of publication unknown International League of Antiquarian Booksellers

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A gentle madness : bibliophiles, bibliomanes, and the eternal passion for books.
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ISBN: 0805036539 080504826X 9780805048261 Year: 1995 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) Holt


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Op dubbelspoor en Pilatusbaan : boeken als middel van bestaan
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ISBN: 9057300931 Year: 2000 Publisher: Zutphen Walburg Pers


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Uitgaven van de Vereniging van Antwerpse Bibliofielen. Nieuwe reeks
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ISSN: 17807808 ISBN: 9080885525 Year: 2004 Volume: 2 Publisher: Anvers Vereniging van antwerpse bibliofielen


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The dictionary of the book : a glossary for book collectors, booksellers, librarians, and others
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ISBN: 9781442263390 9781442263406 1442263407 1442263393 Year: 2016 Publisher: Blue Ridge Summit Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for 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 --- over 1,300 different words --- 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: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.


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Revolution and the antiquarian book : reshaping the past, 1780-1815
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ISBN: 9781107687837 9781107000513 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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At the end of the eighteenth century, noblemen and revolutionaries spent extravagant sums of money or precious military resources competing to acquire old books, which until then had often been regarded as worthless. These books, called incunabula, achieved cultural and political importance as luxury commodities and as tools for mastering a controversial past. Men of different classes met in a new, shared marketplace, creating a competition for authority, as books were seen no longer merely as sources of textual information but as a way of controlling the past in the service of contemporary concerns. The old books themselves were often changed to meet new expectations of what important historic objects should be. Focusing on Paris and London, but taking a resolutely pan-European view, this book examines the emergence of this commodity and of a new historical discipline created by traders and craftsmen.

The bookshop at 10 Curzon Street : letters between Nancy Mitford and Heywood Hill 1952-73
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ISBN: 0711224528 Year: 2004 Publisher: London Lincoln

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