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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.

Book collecting --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Collectors and collecting --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania

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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.

English fiction --- American fiction --- Bookstores. --- Books in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Book shops --- Book stores --- Bookshops --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Specialty stores --- Antiquarian booksellers

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Book industries and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- Books and reading --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Antiquarian booksellers. --- Book industries and trade. --- Books and reading. --- Intellectual life. --- Publishers and publishing. --- American culture --- History --- History --- History --- United States --- United States. --- Intellectual life --- American culture --- Role of books --- to date --- Serials

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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.

Books and reading --- Books --- Book collecting --- History --- Book acquisition --- Book history --- book history --- reading culture --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Incunabula --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliophilie --- Livres et lecture --- Librairies d'ancien et d'occasion --- Collectors and collecting --- Social aspects --- History. --- Aspect social --- Histoire.