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Bulletin Pierre Berès
ISSN: 12564303 Year: 1958 Publisher: Paris publisher unknown

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The ABAA newsletter.
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Year: 1989 Publisher: St. Paul, Minn. : Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America,

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Bibliomania : or book madness : a bibliographical romance, in six parts
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ISBN: 0511710712 1108015808 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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'A passion for possessing books, not so much to be instructed by them, as to gratify the eye by looking on them': thus is described 'bibliomania' by one of the characters of Thomas Frognall Dibdin, in this humorous novel first published in 1809. Introduced in English at the end of the 18th century, the term 'bibliomania' gained popularity with the publication of Dibdin's eponymous work. Using the entirely revised 1811 edition, this reissue brings back to life Dibdin's bibliomaniac characters and their playful dialogues on the nature and history of book collecting, and, most importantly, on the dangers of the 'fatal disease' that is bibliomania, its strange manifestations - such as the 'vellum', 'first edition', and 'unique copies' symptoms - and its possible cure. The author of numerous bibliographical works, Dibdin provides erudite comments and clarifications to his characters' dialogues in a parallel narrative of footnotes.


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Philobiblon : A Treatise on the Love of Books
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ISBN: 1139814613 1108061435 Year: 1832 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Distinguished above all for his zeal for learning, Richard de Bury (1287-1345) was an influential figure during the reign of Edward III, becoming bishop of Durham and serving on several diplomatic missions abroad, during which time he accumulated many rare works. The Philobiblon is his passionate treatise on learning and book collecting. Lodging a complaint in the voice of books themselves, Richard expresses his frank views on the current state of learning and scholarly practice. This translation, the first such into English, was prepared anonymously in 1832 by the scholar and linguist John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870). Unlike other book collectors, Inglis was noted for actually having read the books he acquired. The present work contains a brief preface discussing previous scholarship and editions of the text, and ends with extensive notes by Inglis on the original text and his editorial decisions.


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London and the modernist bookshop
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ISBN: 1108769853 1108855199 1108708692 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The modernist bookshop, best exemplified by Sylvia Beach's Shakespeare & Co. and Harold Monro's Poetry Bookshop, has received scant attention outside these more prominent examples. This writing will review how bookshops like David Archer's on Parton Street (London) in the 1930s were sites of distribution, publication, and networking. Parton Street, which also housed Lawrence & Wishart publishers and a briefly vibrant literary scene, will be approached from several contexts as a way of situating the modernist bookshop within both the book trade and the literary communities which it interacted with and made possible.


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Fantasies of the bookstore
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ISBN: 110864600X 110844539X 1108570542 1108683576 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This Element surveys the place of the bookstore in the creative imagination (the fantasies of the bookstore) through a study of novels in which bookstores play a prominent role in the setting or plot. Nearly 500 'bookstore novels' published since the first in 1917 have been identified. The study borrows the concept of 'meaningful locations' from the field of human geography to assess fictional bookstores as narrative events rather than static backgrounds. As a meaningful location, the bookstore creates the potential for events that can occur both within the place of the store and in the wider space within which it functions. Elements of the narrative space include its spatio-temporal location, its locale or composition, and the events which these elements generate to define the bookstore's sense of place.


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The Hroswitha Club and the impact of women book collectors
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ISBN: 100925717X 1009257196 1009257188 100925720X Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Hroswitha Club was a group of women book collectors who met from 1944-2004 in the Eastern United States. This text makes their history accessible, focusing on how members shared knowledge and expertise, providing a space for legitimacy and self-growth in a period where women's access to formal education and academic institutions was limited.


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The Book : newsletter of the Program in the History of the Book in American Culture.
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Year: 1983 Publisher: Worcester, Mass. : American Antiquarian Society,


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Le goût des livres : Victor Diancourt, collectionneur champenois
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ISBN: 9782901816515 2901816517 Year: 2016 Publisher: Reims : Éditions et presses universitaires de Reims : Ville de Reims,

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La bibliothèque municipale de Reims organise, en partenariat avec l'Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, l'exposition Le goût des livres, Victor Diancourt, collectionneur champenois, du 9 septembre au 10 décembre 2016. Cette exposition est présentée à la bibliothèque Carnegie, pôle de conservation et de valorisation au sein de la bibliothèque municipale de Reims. Cette exposition s'inscrit dans un projet de recherche soutenu par la Région Champagne- Ardenne (ALiPat, acteurs du livre et patrimoine textuel). La Ville de Troyes accueillera prochainement dans le même cadre une exposition consacrée à Charles des Guerrois, autre grand collectionneur champenois. L'exposition de Reims a pour ambition la mise en lumière d'un fonds très riche. En effet, de tous les dons antérieurs à la Première Guerre mondiale, le plus précieux est celui de Victor Diancourt, sénateur et maire de Reims, grand bibliophile et collectionneur, qui légua en 1910 près de 20 000 volumes. Une grande partie a malheureusement été détruite le 3 mai 1917 lors de l'incendie de l'Hôtel de Ville qui abritait la bibliothèque depuis sa création au début du XIXe siècle.


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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.

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