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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.
Bibliomania. --- Book collecting. --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book collecting
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Bibliomania. --- Book collecting. --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book collecting
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It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that, until very recently, books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book examines how people acquired and read books from the sixteenth century to the present, focusing on the personal relationships between readers and the volumes they owned. Margaret Willes considers a selection of private and public libraries across the period-most of which have survived-showing the diversity of book owners and borrowers, from country-house aristocrats to modest farmers, from Regency ladies of leisure to working men and women.Exploring the collections of avid readers such as Samuel Pepys, Thomas Jefferson, Sir John Soane, Thomas Bewick, and Denis and Edna Healey, Margaret Willes also investigates the means by which books were sold, lending fascinating insights into the ways booksellers and publishers marketed their wares. For those who are interested in books and reading, and especially those who treasure books, this book and its bounty of illustrations will inform, entertain, and inspire.
Book collectors --- Book collecting --- Private libraries --- History. --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book owners
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Counterculture --- Bookstores --- Paperbacks --- Pacifists --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Book shops --- Book stores --- Bookshops --- Specialty stores --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliography --- Paper backs --- Paper-books --- Paper-bounds --- Paper-covers --- Paperback books --- Paperbooks --- Paperbounds --- Soft-covers --- Softbound books --- Softcovers --- Books --- Book sales --- Book industries and trade --- Publishers and publishing --- History --- History. --- Publishing --- Paperback editions --- Kepler, Roy C. --- Friends and associates --- Kepler's Books --- Book dealers --- Dealers, Book
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This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority. Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey's commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey's donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation's cultural autonomy.
Humphrey --- Authors and patrons --- England --- History --- To 1500 --- Book collecting --- Literary patrons --- Great Britain --- Biography --- Nobility --- Humanists --- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 --- Politics and government --- 1399-1485 --- Intellectual life --- 1066-1485 --- Benefactors --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Literary patronage --- Maecenatism --- Patronage of literature --- Sponsorship of literature --- Art patronage --- Literature and state --- Humphrey, --- Humfrey, --- Unfredo, --- Plantagenet, Humphrey, --- Humphrey, duc de Gloucester, 1391-1447 --- HUMANISME --- ANGLETERRE --- Et la culture --- 15E SIECLE --- VIE INTELLECTUELLE
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En proposant d'appréhender les populations musulmanes de France par le biais du livre islamique et de ses circuits de distribution, cet ouvrage offre une lecture nouvelle et pertinente de l'islam hexagonal. L'ouverture de librairies islamiques comme la prolifération des points de vente plus informels d'ouvrages portant sur la pratique religieuse musulmane dans les quartiers parisiens de la Goutte d'Or et de la Folie Méricourt datent du milieu des années 1980. Ce phénomène, que l'auteur décrit et analyse en détail, offre la matière à une véritable sociologie urbaine de ces quartiers traditionnellement dévolus à l'accueil des migrants dans l'espace parisien. L'apparition des librairies signale l'aboutissement du processus d'installation pérenne et de communautarisation dans des espaces faussement perçus comme abandonnés et marginalisés. Qui sont cependant les clients fréquentant les librairies ? Quelle relation les lecteurs entretiennent-ils avec le livre islamique ? Quelles sont les motivations conduisant à l'acquisition d'ouvrages mais aussi d'objets en relation à l'islam ? Pour répondre à ces questions, l'auteur s'est livré à une véritable enquête portant sur les catalogues, les thèmes, les auteurs mais aussi les réseaux de distribution, du Beyrouth des années 1980-1990 à la naissance d'une imprimerie islamique parisienne. Cette sociologie historique des réseaux de production du livre s'achève au moment où les indices d'une crise de la demande deviennent manifestes. Comment expliquer cette crise ? Quelle recomposition annonce-t-elle ? Et surtout, que nous dit-elle sur les dynamiques de l'islam en France ? L'auteur livre sur ce point un faisceau d'analyses fort documentées qui sont bien loin des idées reçues.
Muslims --- Bookstores --- Islam --- Books and reading --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Islamic literature --- Libraires et librairie --- Littérature islamique --- Religion --- Islam. --- Book shops --- Book stores --- Bookshops --- Specialty stores --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Religious adherents --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims - Books and reading - France - Paris --- Bookstores - France - Paris --- Islam - France - Paris --- Folie Méricourt --- livre islamique --- Seine-Saint-Denis --- librairies islamiques --- islam en France --- Goutte d’Or --- Paris
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In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a Reformation and post-Reformation struggle to redefine the past by redefining the cultural place, function, and identity of libraries. By establishing the intellectual dynamism of English libraries during this crucial period of their development, Memory's Library demonstrates how much current discussions about the future of libraries can gain by reexamining their past.
Book collecting --- Books and reading --- Libraries --- Reformation --- History. --- History --- England --- Intellectual life --- Book history --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- 02 <09> <41> --- 02 <09> <41> Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bibliotheekwezen:--algemene geschiedenis--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- libraries [object groupings] --- bookstocks --- manuscripts [documents] --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- English Reformation --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- medieval, middle ages, time period, era, early modern, england, britain, uk, united kingdom, europe, european, western, memory, remembrance, remembering, academic, scholarly, research, history, historical, libraries, books, reading, written, tradition, past, 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, antiquarian, robert cotton, reformation, post, intellectual, humanism, evidence, reformer.
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In Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print, Bartholomew Brinkman argues that an emerging mass print culture conditioned the production, reception, and institutionalization of poetic modernism from the latter part of the nineteenth century through the middle of the twentieth century-with lasting implications for the poetry and media landscape. Drawing upon extensive archival research in the United States and Britain, Brinkman demonstrates that a variety of print collecting practices-including the anthology, the periodical, the collage poem, volumes of selected and collected poems, and the modern poetry archive-helped structure key formal and institutional sites of poetic modernism.Brinkman focuses on the generative role of book collecting practices and the negotiation of print ephemera in scrapbooks. He also traces the evolution of the modern poetry archive as a particular case of the mid-twentieth-century rise of literary archives and identifies parallels between the beginning of mass print culture at the end of the nineteenth century and the growth of digital culture today. Advocating for a transatlantic modernism that stretches roughly from 1880 to 1960-one that incorporates both popular and canonical poets-Brinkman successfully extends the geographical, historical, and vertical dimensions of modernist studies.Poetic Modernism in the Culture of Mass Print will appeal not only to scholars and students of literary modernism, modern periodical studies, book history, print culture, media studies, history, art history, and museum studies but also to librarians, archivists, museum curators, and information science professionals.
Poetics --- English poetry --- American poetry --- Publishers and publishing --- Modernism (Literature) --- Mass media and literature --- Book collecting --- History and criticism --- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books. --- American poetry. --- Book collecting. --- English poetry. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- Mass media and literature. --- Modernism (Literature). --- Poetics. --- Publishers and publishing. --- 1900-1999. --- Great Britain. --- United States. --- History and criticism. --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book publishing --- Poetry --- Literature and mass media --- Collectors and collecting --- Publishing --- Technique --- Book selection --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book industries and trade --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Literature --- ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Books --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory --- E-books
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Eighth edition, completely revised and re-set, with additional information and an Introduction by Nicolas Barker. Shaken, Unsophisticated, Harleian Style, Fingerprint, E-book, Dentelle. Can you define these terms? If not, this is the book for you! John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors has long been established as the most enjoyable as well as the most informative reference book on the subject. Here, in over 490 alphabetical entries, ranging in length from a single line to several pages, may be found definition and analysis of the technical terms used in book collecting and bibliography, interspersed with salutary comments on such subjects as auctions, condition, facsimiles and fakes, 'points', rarity, etc. This eighth edition has been revised by Nicolas Barker, editor of The Book Collector and incorporates additional words created by the introduction of web-based collecting. The ABC For Book Collectors retains its humorous character as the one indispensable guide to book collecting while also keeping us up-to-date with modern terminology.
09 <031> --- 090.1 <036> --- Bibliography --- -Book collecting --- -Book industries and trade --- -Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Bibliophily --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book lists --- Lists of publications --- Publication lists --- Documentation --- Information resources --- Abstracts --- Codicology --- Library science --- 090.1 <036> Bibliofilie--Gidsen. Inleidingen --- Bibliofilie--Gidsen. Inleidingen --- 09 <031> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Encyclopedieën. Lexica --- Dictionaries --- E-books --- Book collecting --- Book industries and trade --- Bibliography - Dictionaries --- Book collecting - Dictionaries --- Book industries and trade - Dictionaries --- Acqui 2006 --- -Dictionaries
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Scholars of pre-modern literary culture rely almost exclusively on texts that have survived: mostly those that have reached the comparative safety of modern library collections. But the urge to record, catalogue and advertise the wealth of new publications in the age of print created an additional and valuable resource: book lists. Printers made lists of their available stock; owners catalogued their libraries; religious authorities drew up indexes of banned books; assessors inventoried collections and stock as part of the settlement of estates, or legal proceedings. This volume examines an array of such lists taken from a variety of European countries during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The result is a wide-ranging re-evaluation of one of the most interesting and underused resources for early modern book history. Contributors include: Jürgen Beyer, Flavia Bruni, Gina Dahl, Cristina Dondi, Shanti Graheli, Neil Harris, Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Alexander Marr, Kasper van Ommen, Andrea Ottone, Leigh T.I. Penman, Benito Rial Costas, John Sibbald, Kevin M. Stevens and Malcolm Walsby.
Book history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Europe --- 094 "14/16" --- 091 --- 094 <4> --- 017 --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Renaissance. Periode 1400-1699 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Europa --- Catalogi--(algemeen) --- Bibliography --- Early printed books --- Library catalogs --- Private libraries --- Booksellers' catalogs --- Book collecting --- Book industries and trade --- History --- Catalogs --- History. --- 017 Catalogi--(algemeen) --- 094 <4> Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora--Europa --- 091 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi --- private collections --- book catalogs --- sales catalogs --- bookstocks --- inventories --- Home libraries --- Libraries, Private --- Libraries --- Book collectors --- Catalogs, Library --- Books --- Catalogs, Booksellers' --- Commercial catalogs --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Bibliophily --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Antiquarian booksellers --- Bibliomania --- Book lists --- Lists of publications --- Publication lists --- Documentation --- Information resources --- Abstracts --- Codicology --- Library science --- Catalogs&delete& --- 017 Bibliography and bibliographies. Catalogues --- Bibliography and bibliographies. Catalogues --- private collections [object groupings]
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