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Book history --- Graphic arts --- Puccini, Giacomo --- De Graaf Antiquarian Booksellers [Nieuwkoop]

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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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Silverman analyses subjects as diverse as the relationship between book collecting and aesthetic and cultural currents such as symbolism, the gendered nature of book collecting, the increse collaboration between authors and illustrators, and the marketing of fine books at international exhibits. The high priest of fin-de-siècle bibliophilia was Octave Uzanne (1851-1931), author, journalist, bibliographer, and publisher. He called for change in all matters concerning the luxury book, especially in illustration, binding, and typography. He became the herald of the new bibliophilia, which privileged close collaboration between artists, authors, publishers, and collectors.

Publishers. Printers --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- France --- 090.1 <44> --- 82:7 "1890/1910" --- Bibliofilie--Frankrijk --- Literatuur en kunst--?"1890/1910" --- 82:7 "1890/1910" Literatuur en kunst--?"1890/1910" --- 090.1 <44> Bibliofilie--Frankrijk --- Bibliomania --- Book collecting --- Book collectors --- Books --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- Book owners --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Private libraries --- Bibliophily --- Antiquarian booksellers --- History --- Bibliophiles --- Livres --- Bibliophilie --- Bibliomanie --- Biographies --- Histoire --- 19e siècle --- 20e siècle

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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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The late-nineteenth century in Europe was a period of profound political, social, and technological change. One result of these changes was the rise in France of an upper-bourgeois bohemian class. Many of its members stimulated interest in unique forms of artistic expression such as illustrated books. On account of their influence, an atmosphere of intense bibliophilic activity came to define French culture at the turn of the century. The New Bibliopolis explores the role of amateurs in promoting the book arts in France during this period.Drawing on extensive original research, Willa Z. Silverman looks at the ways in which book collectors supported print culture. She shows how, through the admiration demonstrated by collectors for this medium, print came to be a crucial part of popular conceptions of aesthetics. As collectors, publishers, authors, designers, and directors of bibliophile societies, reviews, and small presses, these book lovers became passionate and prolific interlocutors of the printed word in a uniquely artistic epoch. Silverman analyzes subjects as diverse as the relationship between book collecting and aesthetic and cultural currents such as Symbolism; the gendered nature of book collecting; the increased collaboration between authors and illustrators; and the marketing of fine books at international exhibits.The New Bibliopolis is an important contribution to the study of book history, French sociocultural history, and fine and decorative arts.

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